Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy harnessed the brain trust," says Ryden. Speculation about who would be the next pick for the Kennedy cabinet ravaged the Yard and nearly all such speculations turned out right...
Criticism jostles Cuomo, and he retaliates. From time to time, writers in distant places have been startled to pick up the phone and hear the Governor on the line questioning the accuracy of their stories. Often he accuses critics of bad motives. Says a former close colleague: "Mario cannot treat honest criticism with respect. He views it as a personal attack." By now Cuomo has identified exactly how he responds to attacks. Recently he analyzed himself in the diary. "The first phase is the defensive one," he wrote. "For a short time there is regret, distaste, a desire to return...
...Macchio looks so skittish that his feet are almost never flat on the floor: he is forever on his toes, primed for flight. Early in the play De Niro makes the boy squirm by pledging to be his best friend, a pal so close he would pick his son's nose for him. Later, when he learns the boy has sampled heroin, he aims a loaded gun at his offspring, then at himself. Cuba is less angry about drug use--he snorts cocaine all the time--than at his son's turning to anyone but him for life's experiences...
...would have been outside the U.S." There is a tinge of anger. "This week is the first time in eight weeks that any of those three Government bodies investigating me has asked my opinion on anything," he said. "The idea that I can sit over in my office and pick up the phone and get things fixed is naive...
...offs. Tax shelters for oil and gas drilling, however, were largely spared because of that industry's dire condition and political clout. Most businesses are finding that the new tax proposal is a mixed bag of helpful and hurtful surprises. Stockbrokers, for instance, would lose IRA business but would pick up investment money that might otherwise have gone into tax shelters. Automakers might suffer a bit because car loans would no longer be deductible, but could expect to benefit from the accompanying tax cut that puts more money into consumer pockets. Farmers would mourn the loss of the investment...