Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vance style is quieter. While stringent, his security arrangements are lower-keyed than Kissinger's. The former Secretary used to fly his armored limousine around the world; Vance rides in the local ambassador's car. Dealing with the press, Vance is more reserved than Kissinger was, rarely holding discussions from a plane-seat armrest. He prefers formal briefings, does not treat reporters as cronies and does not like to gossip. Still, there are signs that his style is becoming more relaxed as he gets to know the dozen or so correspondents who are steadily assigned...
...best damn appointment Jimmy Carter has made," drawled Bob Strauss not long before the President gave him the additional job of ambassador-with-jawbone to Big Business and labor in the battle to check inflation. Immodesty is part of the ebullient Texan's style. So, too, are profanity, sensitivity, a dislike for pretense, a taste for good whisky, and deft persuasiveness in almost any matter involving politics and politicians...
...Emmerich's rhetorical style lacks the coherence and continuity necessary in formulating a credible and forceful critique of "sociobiology" or of delving into the spirituality and political inclinations of Professor Irven DeVore...
...American Craig Jaeger controlled most of the first-half face-offs, and Harvard looked nervous and tight as the visitors coasted to a 5-0 lead. Middies Gordie Nelson and Terry Trusty shook Harvard out of its stagnating style of play with two picture-perfect long shots midway through the second quarter, but Cornell owned the rest of the opening half...
...moratorium strategy also calls upon the churches to become authentically African by incorporating into their theological, liturgical and administrative life-style Africa's own religious traditions. Much of this is already happening in the so-called Independent churches in Africa. It is the missionary-established churches that are being urged to change...