Word: safe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noble in its intent. A commission is now hard at work trying to figure out what the 20,000-word provision allows and what it forbids. But in the interim, the panel has passed the word that anyone employed by the state government should play it safe and accept no gifts from lobbyists...
What seems more likely is that there was an unusual combination of people and events in the mid-1960s. There was J. Edgar Hoover, the aging head of the FBI, who kept in his private safe the hottest files on important people and dribbled the information out to Presidents when it served his power-hungry purpose. Hoover knew his man; Johnson had a voracious appetite for gossip. Then there was Cartha (Deke) Deloach, Hoover's deputy, who felt that he might be named Hoover's replacement under Johnson. Deloach became a courier to the White House...
...does not like, but still keep markups low. Yet he also hopes to lift A. &P.'s profit margin, which now hovers at less than half its traditional level of 1? on every dollar. Scott reckons that earnings should start to improve within a year. Just to play safe, however, he asked for-and got- a five-year contract...
...energy crunch and rising unemployment, middle-class Americans might logically be retrenching-or even digging trenches. In fact, the economic malaise seems to have generated an extraordinary happy-woe-lucky mood. As a laid-off Manhattan construction superintendent puts it: "I could have played out my savings and played safe, but I wanted to enjoy myself. This is the last great splurge." It could be called the Doom Boom...
Between a brilliant and a safe man, he thought, parties would invariably mediocrity," choose the thought safe. Bryce; "The he likes a ordinary voter President does to not be object to sensible, vigorous and magnetic, but "does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity or a wide knowledge. Great men are not in quiet times absolutely needed...