Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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And here, fund drive officials say, is where the momentum factor comes in. Because Harvard is currently conducting a special appeal for funds, it may use its elaborate solicitation mechanism, which includes 4000 alumni volunteers, to convince the other 53,000 Harvard graduates that, contrary to popular belief, they can...
The G.O.P. establishment, notably its members in the White House, have been importuning Helms and his supporters to postpone the inevitable legislative combat. The President's men fear that the emotional debates will destroy their happy, careful consensus. But Helms has not agreed to those pleas for discretion, just as...
For all their pleas for a return to morality in national life, Congressional Club operatives conduct campaigns that flirt constantly with the unethical practice and the unfair charge. The club and its chairman, Tom Ellis, the Raleigh lawyer who is Helms' most powerful adviser, last year ran their own...
The huge ships, which can host at least 90 fighter-bombers, have tremendous striking power, can stay at sea for months and, according to one Navy study, could be knocked out of action only by six missile hits. But given the time they need in port for maintenance and the...
It is inevitable that Nanda should be expelled from this rarefied world. The occasion is the discovery of a novel she is writing. It is intended as a heroic celebration of God, with sundry evildoers redeemed at the climax by divine power. Alas, the manuscript, nowhere near completion, is found...