Word: strausses
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...Strauss, the marvelously witty U.S. trade negotiator, telephoned Zorinsky, arguing the President's case. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance invited him to the State Department and briefed him for a full hour on the importance of the treaties...
...Robert Strauss, President Carter's chief trade negotiator, warned that the dollar's slide could jeopardize American efforts to achieve deep slashes in tariffs and a reduction in nontariff barriers to trade in talks now going on in Geneva...
Cuts were unavoidable; Pennsylvania was facing severe financial difficulties. The administration trimmed $880,000 off its 1978-79 budget in the round of cuts that were announced February 24, According to Jon C. Strauss, budget director at Pennsylvania, the university was facing a deficit of nearly $6 million for fiscal year...
...Proxmire's badgering tone cost him control of his own committee, whose members had received phone calls the day before from Vice President Walter Mondale and Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss urging Miller's confirmation. Illinois Democrat Adlai Stevenson III complained that the committee was asking Miller to prove his innocence rather than confronting him with evidence of guilt. Conservative Republican John Tower of Texas grumbled that "this type of inquiry is how we get our jollies in the Senate. It is easy harassment...
Worse are the lapses that occur in the course of the action. Sellon, for example, mispronounces the word "elan" as "uh-lan." And one of the funnier lines in the play--Wyke's remark of his wife, "She couldn't get Johann Strauss to waltz"--comes out, "She couldn't get Johann Strauss to waltz." That means, I suppose, that she couldn't get Johann Bach to waltz, either. Moreover, any self-respecting mystery buff can tell you that a "mashie-niblick," that jolly skull-splitter, is a five-iron; Bloomfield ludicrously brandishes a driver. All this may sound like...