Word: rationalizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frequently remember how polite he was as he beat them out. Journalists who have traveled with him give him high marks for generosity and grace under pressure. TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis, who covered the Viet Nam War for NBC, recalls Rather as a friendly rival: "He consistently shared his ration of information, and if he had food, he'd share that too." Says one colleague: "Rather is the most courteous man I have ever met. I remember one time in Europe we had finished taping, and the sound man really did a terrible job. Dan wrote him a note...
Both the health insurance proposals that President Carter and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) support fallaciously assume that government can ration health care without reducing its quality, Sammons said...
Literate Nicaraguans, "populares," will teach in cities and towns where they live, while a People's Literacy Army, composed of volunteers, will go to rural areas. Now in Nicaragua there is a ration of one teacher to every ten learners...
...self like an "Olympian god," the book says, treating his former subordinates with condescension, electing to dine in regal solitude. For a time, he kept up a correspondence with some of his former girl friends. That did not, however, stop his wife from trying to smuggle him a ration of cognac in fruit-juice cans. It was he who persuaded the authorities to install wiring for air conditioners and other appliances in the cells, which are likened to comfortable studio apartments...