Word: processing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Working for nearly three years over yellow legal pads at his San Clemente estate, Nixon produced 1.5 million words. Even more surprising, he then went willingly, if painfully, through an editing process that slashed those hard-wrought words to fewer than 500,000−a throw-away of presidential verbiage that must make historians blink. Still, the final product is a book of 1,184 pages. And though Nixon had research help from his staff, as well as from writers who prepared drafts of some sections, the result, says Editor in Chief Robert Markell of Grosset & Dunlap, "is very much...
...peace. Dayan indicated that Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, the Israeli official who has had the most contact with the Egyptians, had persuaded his colleagues in Jerusalem that Sadat has gone as far as he can, at least until the Jordanians and perhaps the Syrians are brought into the peace process...
...bouffe, W.S. Gilbert, was kidnaped as a baby in Naples−an event both Neapolitan and Gilbertian.) And it is true that it has traditionally been hard to think of Italy as tranquil, law-abiding, prepared to solve its problems through calm discussion and the slow process of democracy. Italy is a very new democracy, and its citizens distrust democracy as they have always distrusted more autocratic forms of government. Sicilians came to America with a sage or naive disbelief in Jeffersonian democracy. You cannot trust government; you have to get things done by yourself, with violence, naturally...
...Alex Vik carded an 86, marred by a ten on the 16th hole. His drive bounded into the woods, putting him "in jail." He took a lusty cut with his second shot, decimating a colony of beetles and cutting a yard-long swath through a dandelion patch in the process. The stung ball scooted into the clear, hit a rock and ricocheted skyward, landing well behind the bewildered...
...then complained that utility rate hikes are needed, and plants are being cancelled, because of costly delays in the licensing process. It said that nuclear plants could operate more efficiently (they presently run at about 60 per cent of their capacity) were it not for unreasonable environmental restrictions. It ended by saying that we all want solar power, but that it relies on a technology that's far in the future...