Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toward that end, Fahd argued that the P.L.O. should curtail its terrorist activities for a time, while the Saudis offered the U.S. their million-barrel-a-day oil production bonus-or "Fourth of July present," as King Khalid described it at the time. Kuwait was brought in on the deal to make use of the abilities of its representative on the current U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Abdalla Yaccoub Bishara...
Those assumptions are highly questionable. At present, broadly defined solar provides less than 6% of the nation's energy needs; some other studies anticipate that solar could supply no more than 10% by the year...
...crisis in Asia. The president says. "Now where shall we start, gentlemen?" An aide raises a hand and breaks the silence, saying, "Mr. President, I believe we should formulate a series of balance sheets, starting with our adversary's partisan perceptions and leading to a yesable proposition we can present him with...
Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson, chairman of the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee, juggling metaphors in a bureau critique of the Administration's synthetic-fuel program: "We have to make a beginning. But we don't have to present the big picture or go off the deep end. The sensible thing is to start down the road with every possible safeguard, recognizing that there are problems...
...Taylor, especially if the thinker happens to have been twelve when she was twelve, all brave and radiant in National Velvet. (Teddy Kennedy was twelve then, and so was John Updike, but they had not wandered into the witch's house, were not on public view.) Some of the present class of very young actresses will become fat, will be many times divorced, will forever erase the lying promise of incredible early beauty. Some of these pretty children will do better, some worse, but that is for later, for the unimaginably distant future, for October. Just now the meadow...