Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Post's gift was gracious, but it seems designed to make the isolation of the presidency a bit more splendid than it ought to be. Perhaps in the interests of sheer humility a constitutional amendment should require that a President spend at least a few weekends a year in a trailer camp or a slum, or sleeping on a relative's Hide-a-Bed in East Lansing...
...bear on a peasant nation slightly larger than Florida. The smallest war, 9,000 miles from San Diego, became a national obsession that capsized a consensus President and undermined some of the most crucial American institutions?the military, the universities and, more broadly, the framework of authority itself, the sheer believability of Government...
Director Dick Richards hasn't filmed a story, only a series of along-the-trail anecdotes which illustrate the boy's macho training, boss Frank Culpepper's disciplinary authority over his unruly group (an authority of sheer professional certitude), and the slender code of honor of the four orneriest critters--gunmen Culpepper picks up to replace men shot by cattle thieves...
Politics aside, the sheer size and complexity of IBM and the computer industry pose a formidable challenge to the Government's legal resources. One measure of the sums of money at stake in IBM: the total market value of the company's stock is about $45 billion, which is only $4 billion less than the value of all the stocks listed on the American Stock Exchange. The computer industry's enormously complicated leasing and shared-time arrangements, its huge lines of software and peripherals, its exponentially advancing technology, all make legal accountability far more difficult than...
...tots. Since they both approach adultery with the subdued ardor of a visit to the dentist, an enormous burden is placed on the dialogue, which is not saucy enough as banter and not solid enough as humor. Anne and Paul finally do play connubial hooky, but the sheer logistics of an illicit affair soon drive them, with considerable relief, back home...