Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Imperato Jamaica Plain, Mass...
...only still lives plain, but Al Coury. 43, talks as tough ("Don't call me back. Just do it") and speaks as straight ("If someone brought me Kiss today on a silver platter, I still wouldn't sign them") as he did 21 years ago, when he started hustling records around New England for Capitol. At RSO, Coury is given his head ("Robert's always on a boat somewhere. He says the L.A. smog affects his breathing"). Coury plunges into all areas of the biz. He engineers marketing strategy, designs ad campaigns, even pitches in on planning those mammoth Sunset...
...Office of Management and Budget it has become a real nightmare. When W. Bowman Cutter, the aptly named Associate Director of OMB, drifts off to sleep these nights, his dreams run regularly to visions of hands that keep grabbing at him from all directions. The symbolism is plain: the hands belong to various interest groups that are desperately appealing to him to be exempted from budget cutbacks. Less than a month remains before Jimmy Carter presents to Congress his spending program for fiscal 1980, and Cutter and his OMB colleagues are locked in a furious struggle with almost the entire...
...against the marauding Russian bear. That is why Helms speaks so strongly about the grim outlook in Iran. Says he: "We ought to go to our NATO allies and make certain that we are all together, and then we ought to sit down with the Russians and make it plain to them that having the Persian Gulf under the control of Communists is simply not acceptable...
...whom have urged the service to give more thought to the needs of "innocent private and parochial institutions." Said Commissioner Kurtz: "This is a question we are very concerned about and will be examining closely." Although he gave no hint of the IRS's response, Kurtz made it plain to the chorus urging him to revise his plan that he had got the message...