Word: reached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detests reading reports and prefers to have them delivered orally. Most letters from Jimmy Carter, for example, are read to him aloud by the U.S. Ambassador. Because there are so few able men around him, many of Sadat's own directives seem to melt away when they reach Egypt's swollen bureaucracy. The President keeps the important decisions secret; his ministers, and even his wife, usually hear about them the same time the public does. When Sadat finally does arrive at a decision, it is usually irreversible. "He has a will of iron," says one military officer...
That is quite a reach for a 19-year-old organization that was once widely admired and imitated as a seemingly successful program for rehabilitating alcoholics and drug addicts. Dederich established a nononsense, self-help program that included the "game," a rugged encounter session in which participants acted out their inmost hostilities. Learning the truth about themselves supposedly helped them stay off drugs or booze. But in recent years, Dederich has had more grandiose ambitions and transformed Synanon into a religious cult with himself as high priest and prophet. It now attracts fewer addicts and more middle-class eccentrics...
...fiscal year-a laughably small amount, given the hunger of both Japanese and visiting foreigners for steaks and roasts. In all, the Japanese proposals did not satisfy the American demand for an early, one-third reduction in Japan's trade surplus with the U.S., which is expected to reach $8.5 billion this calendar year...
Private housing, schools and small shops will be just outside the downtown area, within easy reach of a clear, trout-filled stream just north of the town. There, as one official notes, residents will be able to hear "the wind of the willow, the babble of Deception Creek." Most inspiring of all, on a clear day they will be able to look northwest and see McKinley -the peak that native Alaskans have always called Denali ("The Great One"). Comments City Planner Alan Rivkin of Washington, D.C., a consultant to the commission: "This new capital will be an embodiment of what...
...Some 2,000 broadcast preachers, those who have taken their Gospel from tent to tube and also reach 114 million radio listeners, will hold their annual convention in Washington, B.C., next month. Among the speakers will be Anita Bryant, just named "Most Admired Woman" by 22% of 11,530 voters in the annual Good Housekeeping poll, and Marabel (Total Woman) Morgan. As if to emphasize the extraordinary range...