Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is something very satisfying about dashing heroes performing courageous deeds of derring-do to rescue beautiful maidens in distress from the predations of hideous monsters. The new season, especially at ABC, seems short on this sort of classic fantasy...
...their insistence erodes trust, hurting the presidency and thus the nation. They have drawn the wagons in a circle and have so far placed Carter's pride and the feelings of their old friend Bert before the good of the country. It is selfishness and arrogance of a sort. In a sound presidency, there is only one final measure of action: Is it in the national interest? Bert Lance no longer is because he played too loose with money...
...about the same skill -when he tried to send newsmen chasing after Chuck Percy on a provably false charge. Surely there have been times in the past when presidential press secretaries have called up newsmen and suggested they check out rumors of wrong-doing by Senators. But that sort of thing is probably done less in reality than in the Washington novels...
...Said one draft of the brief, which was being revised right down to the wire: "We doubt that it is ever proper to use race to close any portion of the class for competition by members of all races. It is one thing to give a minority applicant the sort of consideration that will assist him in competing fairly against other applicants; it is quite another to set aside a number of slots for which interracial competition is precluded...
...Sort of like a Waring blender...