Word: starting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baker wants to stop "suffocating on polysyllabic, Latinate English," let him start by changing the name of his column, "Observer...
...making news, but Kennedy's shadow loomed over the occasion. The President's aides estimated that the Senator's comprehensive plan would cost a staggering $63.8 billion a year to the Government and employers, just for openers. It makes more sense, said Carter, to make a start with a less sweeping plan. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano observed that there was no more chance of getting a program like Kennedy's through Congress "than putting an elephant through a keyhole...
Paul VI would agonize over decisions, creating confusion and expectation of change, then end up with a conservative choice that was loudly criticized. John Paul lets everyone know from the start that he is unequivocal on both dogma and discipline. He drew far less opposition than Paul when he too reaffirmed the celibacy rule for priests in April. In fact, the new Pope is more conservative than Paul: he has made clear that priests should remain faithful to their vows, rather than seek laicization. He not only flatly opposes divorce and remarriage but has provoked speculation that he will tighten...
...intention of the Cubans is to control the border with Namibia so that they can help SWAPO. Today they fear to come into this area. We control most of the south. I don't think the Cubans are very keen on the war any more. When they start being sent home in their coffins, they will be less keen...
...Writer Andrew Bergman's cockamamy script would have it, Vince is currently involved in a complex scheme to prevent an international monetary crisis. Runaway inflation is a terrible thing, Vince explains, because people start to use currency as wallpaper and tend to listen to atonal music. Though Sheldon wants nothing to do with his inlaw, he soon becomes his unwitting accomplice. What follows is a nonstop series of shootouts, chase scenes and mishaps that catapult the heroes from suburban New Jersey to Manhattan's treacherous West 30s and finally to a banana republic so corrupt that its main...