Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There has been no room for anyone else in this select fraternity. The crusade of the Georgians had been against Washington, bigness, sin in public places and institutions as viewed and defined from Plains. Carter no longer wages war against the deductible three-martini lunch, but he has never reconciled himself to those who indulge. Nor is there any evidence that he has ever gone off secretly to contend, over dinner, with the forces of Washington outside the White House. "Carter is alone in this city," says a former Democratic Party official who worked for Lyndon Johnson. "Not a single...
...today?that if you are going to govern, then you have to reach out." A couple of years ago, when trouble for Carter's programs was developing on the Hill and it was apparent that the gap between Congress and the White House was widening, Carter was urged to select certain compatible Senators and Congressmen and get to know them over dinner or at other social occasions. Maine's then Senator Edmund Muskie was viewed as an important figure who could mesh with the President. Yet Carter balked for weeks, reluctant to court someone from the world of the Capitol...
...referred to point B, and you will finally wind up at point C, where they more often than not will send you back to A. At registration, you will get a course catalogue. You will also be able to get a Confi Guide, which you will need to select your courses intelligently. You will doubtless gape at the swirl of activity going on around you, and be weighed down by a barrage of materials. This is the Harvard Experience? you will ask. Just wait for sectioning next week...
...group is currently polling members of the national professional associations in those fields in order to select the six candidates, Greenblatt said yesterday, adding that the severe shortage of Black academics in mathematics and the natural sciences made studying those fields impractical...
...Senate hearing room. Nine solemn Senators will lean into microphones to direct pointed questions across a massive table at some of the nation's highest officials, including almost certainly the Attorney General, the President's counsel and the President's National Security Adviser. The select group of Senators may go off to the White House to grill the President himself, who has pledged to cooperate, and the questioning may also include his wife Rosalynn. But their most withering inquiries will be aimed at a babble-prone, 43-year-old country boy who would be unworthy of such...