Word: seriously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Serious though the sessions were, they had lighter moments. Clark Clifford, 72, former Secretary of Defense and all-around troubleshooter for Democratic Presidents, tried to ride a bike for the first time in 60 years and fell on the seat of his pants. Said Clifford: "The last time I rode a bicycle, you reversed the pedals to stop. This time I reversed the pedals and it went faster. I bailed...
...antipathy or distrust or even sometimes a hatred of the Government of the U.S.; not just me, but I'm part of it. ∙ I've commented about the moral equivalent of war, which was more a subject of scorn and ridicule than it was of serious analysis, and I think it's inevitable that it's going to get worse in '80 than it was in '79, and it will get worse in '81 than in '80. The only trend is downward. But it's been almost impossible...
...issue that cuts many ways. The U.S. adamantly opposes the settlements. Says one senior Administration official: "Not only is the confiscation of Arab land illegal, it causes serious damage to the peace process." Some State Department officials were pleased with the letter, but there was no public comment from the Administration; it feared that hard-line elements in the Begin government would counterattack with charges of American manipulation of "Jewish family matters." The Israeli Premier must already contend with the fact that both Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman disagreed with the Cabinet's approval...
...close to 25% of National's shares, to fight fairly freely for control of the airline in the marketplace. If Eastern later gets CAB permission to buy more than 25% of National's stock (it now holds just 100 or so shares), it also will become a serious bidder...
...still cared about the ineffable Transylvanian count and the strange folkloristic ways of fighting off his baleful influence (garlic on the windowsills, stakes through the heart, that sort of nonsense). Like those old programmers, the new Dracula is shot in the high gothic-romantic tradition, lushly scored and terribly serious about itself and its subject matter. It is also, like the old Hammers, quite overt-if a trifle too discreetly so-in making the connection between Dracula's blood lust and other, more conventional forms of eroticism. This time round there is plenty of money to do a handsome...