Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lowered tariffs between the U.S. and its major trading partners and his rapport with the President seem to have weighed more heavily with Carter than Strauss's uncertain knowledge of Middle Eastern realities. Says an Administration official: "The object was to get a guy in there who could speak with the authority of the President, so that Carter won't have to get as closely involved as he did the last time around...
...Finance Committee. But legendary figures like Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn of Texas and Oklahoma's Robert Kerr are long gone. Now the industry has to deal instead with all 535 members of the House and Senate. Explains one leading oil lobbyist: "The industry realizes that it has to speak to everyone and it tries. We let the facts speak for themselves...
...Orient (1964), he understands smart young people and knows how to cast them. Lane, a pretty refugee from Broadway's Runaways, is a completely unmannered actress who cuts to the guts of every scene; she is a major find. Though Bernard has too many punch lines and must speak in a second language, he rises to Lane's level by the end. The adults are just as good. Arthur Hill plays the same understanding stepfather he did in The Champ, but here he has the chance to bring the character to life. Sally Kellerman, as Lane...
...DISPARITY between what the national debate over foreign and military policy is and what it should be is striking. Deceived by faulty military metaphors, we still speak of a "balance of terror," as though relative power exists when each side can annihilate the other several times over...
...want to express my appreciation to everyone who has spoken. I'm sure this will not be the last time we will speak. But I very much appreciate the spirit in which the discussion has gone on, and the way in which we have tried to think together about how we will approach a horrible situation, instead of simply castigating one another simply because we take different approaches to a common end. Being six o'clock. I think we should adjoin the meeting, unless there is some urgent business to come before...