Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deduction, held hearings on the issue last week. The IRS can alter the benefit if agency lawyers decide it is unfair. But just as in the case of weapons decisions, Congress has ultimate jurisdiction over the tax laws, and strange things have been known to happen in the quiet of a committee room...
Even at noon, the small brick ranch house was strangely quiet and dimly lit. Out of the silence, a soft voice offered a greeting. Jimmy Carter looked unchanged from the White House days, although perhaps a bit less imposing in heavy blue jeans, black boots and a long-sleeved flannel shirt. He had been working on his memoirs since before dawn, he said. As he sat in an easy chair, smiling warmly, he spoke with that familiar instructive manner, still wary and somehow aloof, his gentle mien always at odds with the ambition and defiance that surely cooked inside...
...unusally stuffy concrete chamber where the final stage of the rent control hearing process is held, and the often months-long wait that preceded it, landlords' and tenants' tempers sometimes grow short by the time they face the board members. To end a repetitious argument or enforce quiet among the audience. Chairman Acheson Callaghan picks up his gavel and taps it with the authority of an annoyed judge. "It's not a court," says one resident familiar with the board's procedures. "But there's a lot on the line so already you're uncomfortable as a tenant...
...familiar insider's tale of life on the trail. He is no longer a boy on the bus seeking out the behind-the-scenes moments that give dimension to the electoral odyssey. "The outdoor reporting seems to shrink in significance, and what remains most relevant is the quiet moments at my desk," he concludes. "I could sit at home and learn as much or more about the frame of the campaign as I could on the road...
...quiet interlude is broken by a ringing phone. It is Rally's mother telling lim that she is bringing his crippled, alcoholic father home from his latest hospital stay. The boy remonstrates with her and, almost in tears, finally blurts out, "I'm warning you now; when the two of you start fighting again, I'm leaving home!" What follows is an example of Fugard's psychological astuteness. For the father he cannot strike, Hally substitutes the father who cannot retaliate. He tongue-lashes Sam for not doing his work, not keeping his place, not showing...