Word: pleasing
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Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon had already signaled the White House that they wanted to attend the funeral. Reagan decided to make it a full house. White House staffers tracked down Gerald Ford in New York, and he eagerly signed on. Then the White House and State Department began the...
Defendants have had little incentive to employ this defense, since the best hope it offered was usually a lifetime in a wretched mental hospital. In recent years, advances in drugs and psychotherapy, along with a trend toward returning mental patients to their communities, have reduced the average length of confinement...
Abt and others said her pleas to also consider additional ways of easing the city's housing crisis may have cost her the bid. "She goes one step further and says we can perhaps develop something better someday than rent control," CCA campaign chair Paul Walker said last night, adding...
As the commander of the 200,000-strong U.S. Army forces in Europe, General Frederick J. Kroesen, 58, knew he had become a prime target in the anti-American campaign waged by West German terrorists. Barely a month ago, the mild-mannered general finally heeded pleas by West German police...
Never mind Reagan's disclaimer that the enactments of the summer don't go into effect until October 1, or even the well-intentioned earnestness of his pleas for patience and sacrifice in the upcoming years. The technical economic arguments for tax cuts and spending reductions have never been the...