Word: specially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monitor Soviet compliance with SALT, and transcripts of the three Senate committees that have been hearing testimony on the pact. He has also discussed SALT's details and geopolitical significance with, among others, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, heads of several NATO countries, and, during a special summer visit to the Soviet Union, Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. With this background, Byrd expects to be able to advise those Senators who may be unsure of the issues. And as majority leader, he can be expected to pressure, and protect politically, those who may waver...
...high earnings were due partly to special, unrepeatable circumstances. The third quarter of 1978 had been the worst three-month period in five years, and thus comparisons with this year's figures would show exaggerated growth. A July change in British tax law provided a onetime $200 million bonanza, and a reduction in foreign exchange losses saved Exxon $51 million. Those two items accounted for nearly a quarter of the 118% increase...
...first word reached Washington, via a "secure line" telephone call to Presidential Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski from Ambassador William Gleysteen. After alerting President Carter, Brzezinski summoned a meeting of the Special Coordination Committee, whose members include Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Army Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer, CIA Deputy Director Frank Carlucci and Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher...
...buoyed by reader surveys that predict a wholesale return of the faithful when the Times resumes on Nov. 13 and the Sunday Times on Nov. 18. To entice them, the Times is planning to spend between $2 million and $4 million on a promotional blitz. It also will publish special eight-page supplements on major issues of the past year, on developments in the arts and on books. For the record, there will be three eight-page obituary supplements. The Sunday Times, which bought serialization rights to Henry Kissinger's memoirs more than a year ago, will finally...
...friends think he is nuts, and they are right. He spends hours, late at night, parked in front of the house where Laura lives with her stepdaughter and the hus band to whom she is nothing special...