Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Journalists, as everyone knows, are compulsive (and sometimes compelled) travelers. Journeys in pursuit of stories often produce separate excursions backward in time, flights of nostalgia and memory that help a skilled observer feel his way into the subject he is covering...
...finished dinner. Ford became president and we didn't talk about politics much for the rest of the summer. When I came home in the fall, I asked my friends in high school what they had done when Nixon resigned, but they were not too interested in the subject and I dropped it. The malignancy had been removed. That was all that counted...
...subject of the uproar is a "cargo preference" bill that would require 9.5% of all oil imported into the U.S. to be carried by U.S.-flag ships by 1982, v. 3.9% now. Most of Carter's advisers-in the Treasury Department, the Council of Economic Advisers, the State Department, the Defense Department, the Office of Management and Budget-are against the bill. They fear it would aggravate inflation by forcing the use of more expensive U.S. ships with highly paid crews: it costs $14,300 a day to run a 90,000-ton U.S. ship...
Some of the Laurentian material in this new novel, notably Saville's unsatisfactory love affair, conveys a rare sense of place and emotion. Yet the impression remains strong that Storey, himself a miner's son, is unable to put enough distance between author and subject. His anger does not shake itself clear, and, like the hero, the novel's impressive strength never quite finds its direction. Skow
...improve the financial pages by expanding the staff and adding regular reports on careers, management, technology and other subjects. The once sternly liberal and generally predictable editorial page has brightened since its editor?and Sulzberger's cousin?John Oakes, 64, was made a senior editor last January. The new oracle-in-chief, Max Frankel, 47, a former Washington bureau chief, has moved editorial policy a little closer to Sulzberger's own middle-of-the-road pragmatism and initiated a number of features, including "Topics," a collection of short and sometimes snappy commentaries. Frankel (who reports directly to Publisher Sulzberger...