Word: regular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study of the second six weeks showed only a small drop in the work load. Unscheduled consultations and pop-in appointments were taking up as much as 15% of the precious presidential day. Carter, it appeared, was the one who was being forced to adjust. He added four more regular weekly meetings to his schedule. He ordered his wake-up calls at 6 a.m. (instead of 6:30) to expand his hours for reading. An aide found some schedules from previous Administrations and marveled at the relative isolation Carter's predecessors enjoyed...
...Seattle and redlining in city neighborhoods. His stories can have wide impact. A column on Colorado's "sunset law," which requires a yearly re-evaluation of spending programs, prompted legislators in eight other states to introduce similar measures. Peirce also dispenses local anesthetic for painful civic problems through regular articles in the fact-packed National Journal (circ. 3,200), an authoritative Government-watching weekly he helped launch in 1969, which is one of the nation's most expensive publications (yearly subscription...
...lots happening out in the country that official Washington and chic New York were not aware of." In March 1975 he started writing a biweekly column on local affairs of national significance, simply mailing it from his home to papers across the country. He now writes weekly, has 65 regular subscribers and many other occasional users. He asks the latter group to pay their regular rate for a feature of similar length, which may vary from $15 to $75. Although Peirce spends two weeks of every month on the road, he still handles the details of mailing and bookkeeping himself...
...prejudice of white fans against a black man calling signals and directing the team does not help. Joe Gilliam was one of the first black N.F.L. quarterbacks, starting six preseason and another half-dozen regular-season games for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1974. His record up to that point was 10-1-1, but his life was hell in a very small place. Lynn Swann recalls: "He would get anonymous phone calls. They said they could rip him off any time they wanted to, there were two guns pointed at him, that if he started the ball game...
...removal of Betty Ford's cancerous right breast, ordered the lump removed, under a local anesthetic. The laboratory report showed the growth to be benign, and Rosalynn headed happily home. The next morning, word came that the First Lady was "in great spirits." She even took her regular Spanish lesson and popped over to the Kennedy Center to attend a lecture on the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler -just as though nothing whatsoever had happened...