Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the 2½ years Brown and Duncan worked together at the Pentagon, says one senior staffer with only slight exaggeration, Brown and Duncan became "fully interchangeable parts." Duncan, 52, had areas of special responsibility: the politically sensitive matter of "base realignments," the Defense Department's euphemism for shutting down unwanted military bases; the knotty problem of settling Navy claims against its shipyard contractors; and military aspects of the Panama Canal treaties. His manner is easygoing, and his conversation is spiced with Texas mannerisms ("Like my daddy used to say ..."). But he is also a tough businessman with little...
...Bill to have the Fed raise interest rates. Concluding that Blumenthal was wrong, Miller balked; eventually Carter had to tell Blumenthal to ease up the pressure. Later Miller would sit calmly in his inordinately neat Fed office on Constitution Avenue, motion out the window toward the White House and say, "All's quiet on the western front...
...Thomas More Book Store, forced by the University to leave its old home on Holyoke St., will relocate on the ground floor of Holyoke Center early next month, but at a rent so high that the proprietors say they will be forced to sell the store within a year...
...Energy Project earlier this month released its report on America's energy options: a collection of eight persuasive, crisply written essays entitled Energy Future. The project, which has been studying energy problems since 1972, says it is impossible to wriggle out of OPEC's grip in the short term by depending on conventional domestic energy sources--oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear. The Harvard group is not the first to say we must look elsewhere. But what is unique about this conclusion--other than the respect the group commands in government and business circles--is the Project's pragmatic, multidisciplinary...
...rested in large measure in the practiced impugning of others." The book is a lively recall of triumphs that brought down the mighty, but it gains unexpected depth from Anderson's confession of troubled self-doubts. It is no great distortion of the book's message to say that investigative reporting, as its critics and victims have long insisted, often produces sordid victories...