Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good days he can accomplish all that and more, but it is said in Moscow that he also has bad days, as old men do. There has been speculation about why he has not retired voluntarily and honorably, or been replaced by a younger and healthier man. One reason is that Brezhnev appears genuinely popular inside the huge Communist Party bureaucracy. He is a master politician, able executive and respected leader of a world power. He is considered fair in his dealings with the party, loyal to his political allies, responsible and cautious in his policies, and reluctant to purge...
...prospect alarms many constitutional experts, who fear that a convention could not be limited to a single issue, thereby creating a sort of open season for tampering with the Constitution. In addition, many experts also oppose writing a flat prohibition on deficits into the Constitution. One reason is that it would holster an important weapon in coping with recession. Moreover, many doubt that a no-deficit amendment is practical. Robert Bork, Yale's conservative law professor and former U.S. Solicitor General in the Nixon Administration, attempted for several months to draft a constitutional amendment that would limit federal spending...
...Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) remained united. Most of the member states-Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines-received soothing visits and pledges of "good neighborliness" last year from smiling Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh. After the fall of Cambodia, the ASEAN leaders had good reason to assess the guile behind the smile...
...Today I met Albie. Albie is the curious fellow who roams Soldiers Field, spouting such phrases as. "Go home, go home, no game today, no game." There is something strangely entertaining about watching Albie direct some crusty alumnus to a proper parking space and watching the alumnus try to reason with him. As I saw Albie for the first time, former baseball coach Loyal Park grabbed my arm and said. "Hey, see that fella over there. That's what happens when you coach here too long." (That's not the only thing that happens...
...came down to the last match, a match that Coach Johnny Lee was "99 per cent sure of winning." With Harvard leading the Coast Guard 18-16, and only heavyweight co-captain Craig Beling left to wrestle, Lee had every reason to be optimistic. But Coast Guard wrestled away the victory when Craig Sattergrin unexpectedly pinned Beling...