Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simultaneously increase arms transfers while claiming to reduce them? By using gimmicks that would do a Las Vegas casino bookkeeper proud. Not counting toward Carter's ceiling, for example, are large categories of transfers that have previously added billions of dollars to the totals: 1) sales to the 14 NATO allies, Japan, Australia and New Zealand; 2) military construction, training and other "services" performed for foreign governments. All reckoning, finally, is to be in 1976 dollars to eliminate the impact of inflation. Such accounting alchemy allows Carter to ignore nearly $5 billion worth of this year's anticipated transfers. Only...
...simultaneously tapping the huge reservoir of power seething from the thousands of small landed proprietors whose chief concern is to protect the endangered agrarian lifestyle their fathers and their father's fathers led before them. As the waves of modernization lap just beyond their rickety barbed-wirse fences, these proud and fiercely independent farmers--no longer safely nestled far from civilization in the sparsely-populated Mississippi hill country--turn to a savior, or at least a defender. In 1975, they turned to Finch...
...Once a proud company of proud men acting with the confidence that not only would their accomplishments serve their country but that their fellow citizens would support them, the agency has found its very functions and rationale severely questioned. It has had five directors in five stormy years. Its chiefs seem to spend more time before congressional committees than in planning and administering. Its agents, never public heroes because of the secrecy of their work, are now portrayed in the harshest of press accounts as conspiratorial villains. Somehow the rules of the spy game changed...
...weather when it happens to be their own. Abroad, there are the desert tribes that profess to revere their baked domains. Similarly, the New Englander or the Minnesotan boasts about his frozen Februarys and the snow that waits till spring before uncovering the earth again. The Deep Southerner seems proud of those stifling summers that reduce everybody to sweat and distemper. Human responses to weather are, in sum, as variable as the weather itself...
...were the best of my life. The relation for me between the personal and the historical was intense, deeply felt, fully realized. Now, I live an entirely personal life, removed from the larger world. I feel no interest in anything beyond my work. I work hard, I'm proud of the work I do, I consider it an obligation to take as much responsibility for the medical profession as I can, but that's it. The world is smaller, colder, darker by far for me than it was when I was a Communist ... That's a funny...