Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indescribable cost to the Republic." Buckley imagined a number of fanciful actions for which a President should be indicted, such as commuting the sentences of all federal prisoners or taking a six-month vacation. Notwithstanding such reductio ad absurdum, Buckley says, the principle remains: "Congress has got to retain the right to pass judgment on gross presidential abuses: the true, and studied, disrespect for the sophisticated obligations of office...
...write a check for $500 or $1,000 for a man, if the candidate is a woman, they write a check for $100." A Harvard Business Review study shows that male executives are more apt to discipline women for minor infractions than men, go to far greater lengths to retain male employees, and tend to hire and promote male managers rather than females with virtually identical qualifications...
...election to the Senate in 1970 to complete Everett Dirksen's term, Stevenson has been one of the Nixon Administration's sharpest critics. Scholarly and hardworking, he called for funds to develop alternative energy sources as far back as 1972, recently directed the unsuccessful Senate effort to retain stand-by controls over wages and prices and has opposed the concept of federal revenue sharing on the grounds that some of the local governments receiving money are in better financial condition than Washington. He does not face strong opposition for reelection this year...
What Hancock and the others retain from jazz is improvisation. From rock they have taken the steady, pervasive beat, and especially electronic instrumentation. In his 1971 album Mwandishi (Swahili for composer), Hancock made his first extensive use of electronic sounds with such instruments or devices as electric bass, electric piano, echoplex and phase shifter. Head Hunters finds him, in addition, employing the Arp Soloist synthesizer (for melody) and the Arp Odyssey synthesizer (melody and color). As if to justify his expenditures, Hancock says: "There is only so much you do with a keyboard...
...lower ends of the market with its avant-garde luxury lines and spartan, eccentrically styled Deux Chevaux. The merged company will be headed by Peugeot Director-General Francois Gautier, 67, but Michelin tire company, which owns a controlling share of Citroën's stock, is expected to retain a similar position in the combined enterprise. Not surprisingly, French investors reacted to the engagement by bidding up the price of Citroën's stock -and bidding down Peugeot...