Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other way, which presumably is an argument for Harvard continuing to do so. Besides, if Harvard were to refuse one such gift, he implies, it would have to consider doing the same to all unsavory gifts, and if it took one and not another, it would commit the great sin of inconsistency. Better to be consistently amoral...
...office hours, and the "lunch with Rosalynn Carter" that shows up on the President's schedule between Prime Ministers and Senators on Wednesday or Thurs day at 12:30 is a unique institution of the modern presidency. Jimmy drinks buttermilk. Rosalynn has coffee. They nibble at salads and sin wildly when they plunge into a dollop of flan with ice cream. They ponder things like advice about Son Jack's grain-elevator business and the guest lists for approaching state dinners; then Rosalynn inevitably asks for the latest information on SALT or the Middle East. At one lunch...
Edward King's greatest sin in the eyes of his detractors is not his ineptness in personnel administration, but his courage in opposing today's giveaway mentality of the bureaucracy and the media; it is that one person's need constitutes an automatic blank check on someone else's abilities. We love him for the enemies he has made...
Last fall Leach committed the heinous sin of persuading Congress to pass two bureaucracy-busting amendments to the Civil Service Reform Act. One requires the Government to reduce its civilian work force by Sept. 30 to the level of two years before and maintain it for three years-a cut of 29,000 employees. The second amendment orders the Administration to think up ways of shipping part of the Federal Government out of town...
...bromides and offending overstatement, as in the remark "despite the exhaust fumes, I could make out the scent of flowers in the gently fluttering breeze." For this we have Lem to blame: in his eagerness to emphasize the irony behind scientific progress that has backfired, he commits the sin of self-indulgence...