Word: secret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extent that distresses liberals. A particularly galling development for Burns must be that he is the chairman under whom the Federal Reserve lost some of its cherished independence. Congress, since 1975, has compelled the board at least to disclose its goals on money supply, rather than keeping them secret as all previous chairmen had been allowed...
Teammates say the secret to Atinc's success on the court is her quickness. Guard Hildy Meyers said yesterday, "She's really quick, a good driver, and a good hustler...
James C. Thompson, curator of the Nieman Fellows, announces the selection of this year's fellowship recipients. The winners include William Colby. Richard Helms, Jason Robards, John Travolta, Chuck Barris, KAL, Peter Marshall, Paul (Secret Square) Lynde, and Buffalo Bob Smith...
...letters from Jimmy Carter, for example, are read to him aloud by the U.S. Ambassador. Because there are so few able men around him, many of Sadat's own directives seem to melt away when they reach Egypt's swollen bureaucracy. The President keeps the important decisions secret; his ministers, and even his wife, usually hear about them the same time the public does. When Sadat finally does arrive at a decision, it is usually irreversible. "He has a will of iron," says one military officer...
...adversity. Even in prison, Sadat was a loner who kept silent, remembers Moussa Sabry, one of four inmates who escaped with Sadat from an earlier jailing. They crawled through a hole in the roof of the camp's rabbit hutch. Says Sabry: "Somehow Sadat made us hold the secret from the hundreds of prisoners...