Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will not be pleasant to hold power...
...confronted by an intractable National Assembly, a clutch of Communists in his Cabinet and a hostile Premier-perhaps Francois Mitterrand himself-committed to reversing his most cherished policies. Measuring all the equations, conservative Economist Jean Fourastié recently provided the best summing up. Said he: "It will not be pleasant to hold power...
...Barnes. Philanthropist Enid A. Haupt funded the entire cost of the renovation with a gift of $5 million. The result is both handsome and ingenious. Even a new underground passageway, which left to its own devices would resemble nothing so much as a subway tunnel, will be put to pleasant use: in artificial light, aquarium plants, mushrooms and mosses will flourish...
...theory, anyone with scissors could emulate Dover's vast output and multimillion-dollar volume. The prospect is pleasant: bygone writers do not require royalties, and artists from other epochs are in greater demand now than they were in their own lifetimes. "All it takes to maintain Dover," says its president and owner, "is judgment, hard work and luck...
...opposition to a clause in a rough draft of the constitution to provide special seats in the assembly for representatives from campus minority organizations, the minority organizations mobilized to neutralize this anti-affirmative action sentiment. The convention members first reacted to this flurry of activity with a sort of pleasant amazement that the convention had finally provoked a response from the students, even a somewhat negative response. Having nearly 90 students show up for a convention meeting--most of which in the past had barely managed to keep a quorum--was, at Harvard, an accomplishment in itself. A sense...