Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acquaintance: "He's miserable at the White House. He hates living surrounded by the Secret Service. He can't get a job as a park ranger for fear that there would be cries of nepotism. There are natural tensions between him and his father, who is very stern." Jack does not want him to run next year for fear of the campaign's effect on his mother...
There is a great deal of chatter in Conduct Unbecoming about the honor of the regiment, much stern enunciation of principles like "gentlemen do not question the honor of other gentlemen...
...assassination attempts also demonstrated how quickly the Secret Service can tumble from being lavishly praised to facing stern criticism. No margin of error is allowed in its duties. After Squeaky's loaded gun failed to fire because she had not pulled the slide to force a cartridge into the chamber, Agent Larry Buendorf keenly spotted the gun's glint and wrestled the weapon away from her before she could try again. He became a hero. The still unnamed agents who decided last week that Moore was no risk were shown, of course, to have been painfully wrong...
...start of a three-week Haydnfest at the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress and countless homes to which radio station WGMS began beaming daily Haydn programs. The performers include the city's own National Symphony, soloists like Violinist Isaac Stern and Cellist Janos Starker, orchestras and choruses from Yale, Shenandoah Conservatory and Kent State University...
...prospects are spurring radical changes in oil technology. When exploration began, the most important model of an underwater operation that oilmen could go by was the Gulf of Mexico, which has been dotted by U.S. drilling and production platforms for a generation. The North Sea soon turned into a stern teacher. Laying pipelines, for example, called for bigger, more sophisticated and more expensive barges than any ever used in the Gulf. Because choppy seas often prevent tanker loading, some method for temporarily storing great quantities of oil at sea was called for. The result: CONDEEP- a giant concrete-reinforced production...