Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is little possibility that a summit can achieve much beyond the formal signing of SALT II. Said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "Brezhnev could attend a couple of dinners and read a paper or two, but he is in no shape to engage in real give-and-take with Carter. It will be a pro forma summit, and it would be useless to expect anything more." Though signing a SALT agreement would be very important, Carter is disappointed at the lack of prospects for going further. Said a top White House adviser: "The President really wanted...
...tradition, Thatcher will be addressed simply as "Prime Minister." Even before she paid her first visit to Downing Street, her campaign aides had arrived, their arms loaded with paper work. The government of a determined woman whose work ethic had been forged in the heartland of England was taking shape with no delay...
...most visible subsidiary, NBC does much to shape the public's perception of the $6.6 billion conglomerate (electronics, vehicle renting, communications, food processing, records). So far, despite NBC's long stay in the ratings cellar, the stockholders have shown restraint, probably because in the TV business even last-place networks do very nicely. Although pretax profits dropped 20% last year, NBC still earned $122.1 million...
...interested, impulsive, and impractical in their demands--if the university were a person, one might liken these students to the id. Faculty members, who represent the weight of tradition, the moral conscience, constitute the superego. Outside the Harvard gates and the sheltered ivy-covered buildings, lies Reality, in the shape of "Questionable" donors and unethical corporations, inflation and money worries. And heroically balancing all three, taking the heat from the id, the guilt trip from the superego, the pressure and threats of reality, are Bok and his assistant wise-men, valiantly trying to do the best they...
Tiger sophomore Lapidus is an outstanding player who continues to improve now that he has recovered from a bout with herpes. He is in terrific shape thanks to a training regimen that includes five miles and four hours of tennis a day. He pulverizes his ground strokes almost as hard as Jimmy Connors, has a vicious serve, and a volley game that used to be his Achilles heel but has recently been dipped in the river Styx...