Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, I can only stand upon my rectitude as a writer, generally and firmly established may I hope, to reverse this misunderstanding as a public fact. I am simply not the sort of person who does things like this. Anyone who knows me knows that. Oh, I like a good joke, but I do not attempt to cause people considerable inconvenience or, worse, insulting bewilderment. Therefore, although I have done nothing, I apologize to everyone who thought otherwise...
...looked forward to the day when they could poke around in the political skeleton closet of fundraising. Now that they've been given the opportunity, few have exercised it, succumbing to the old political trick of burying an investigator under a mass of data too big and diffuse to sort through. But only when the reporters and their editors take advantage of the disclosure laws--and take their notebooks and calculators into the campaign finance office--will there be any hope of sparking enough public outrage to spur the recalcitrant legislature into action. Contributors Against the Bottle Bill: Aluminum Association...
...vaguest of cutoff gestures. Explains Karajan: "Baton technique is what the people see, but it is all nonsense. The hands do their job because they have learned what to do. In the performance I forget about them. The molding comes when the orchestra and conductor come together in a sort of union. Things happen that are too delicate for words. It is the music that takes you away. It is mystical: you are so concentrated you forget everything else...
...intelligence services' cooperation with foreign counterparts has generally taken the shape of agreements permitting agents to operate freely in each other's countries. The objects of concern are not only the activities of one's own citizens abroad, but the conduct of governments supposedly regarded as allies. While this sort of concern seems justified given the sort of allies American administrations have been inclined to choose, it is indicative of the perversity of American foreign relations. Not only has the United States chosen allies that it cannot trust, but the integrity of the American political process has been jeopardized...
There is probably still another reason for America's official reluctance to deal with South Korean corruption. Those officials may well possess a sufficient sense of hypocrisy not to condemn foreign governments for the sort of actions that America has practiced for decades. Like South Korea, the United States has funneled money to foreign politicians and granted gifts (usually weapons instead of antiques) to those it wished to influence. And, unlike South Korea, America has manipulated massive sums of financial aid, directed programs of assassination of foreign officials and conducted secret wars abroad. South Korea has only brought home...