Word: sures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange and selective nostalgia for the wheeler-dealer manipulations of Lyndon Johnson, and even, here and there, for the darkling touch of Richard Nixon. But when Americans thought that they detected something of that familiar Milhousian style in the Carter loyalty tests and Cabinet firings, they were not so sure that that was what they wanted after all. Effective leadership often requires a subtle exercise of power that Carter and his Georgians have had difficulty mastering...
...Sure I've got enough to live on," conceded Tacho Somoza, as he fled Nicaragua for his $1 million home-in-exile in Miami Beach. By his own reckoning, the ex-dictator's uncertain future would be cushioned by about $20 million (out of his $100 million fortune) that he had managed to stash outside the country. To American experts who have studied Somoza's corrupt regime, both estimates, however, appeared surprisingly low. Most valuations of the dynasty's holdings were between $500 million and $1 billion; they included Nicaragua's national air line, Lanica...
Under Khomeini's guidance, conservative Islamic practices are inexorably being imposed on Iran. Islamic Revolutionary Guards now patrol the beaches of the Caspian Sea to make sure that men and women swim in separate areas. Steps are being taken to end coeducation in the secondary schools. And several more prostitutes and heroin peddlers were executed. "Don't pay any attention to those who call us reactionaries," admonished Khomeini in a message assailing Western decadence. "We have the future of our young generation to care...
Putting himself down is one of George's better lies. He almost makes you believe that when he and Gracie worked together, his chief job was to see which way the wind was blowing. "I had to make sure the smoke from my cigar didn't go in her direction. That's really all I had to worry about because I knew she was good...
...sure whether either of these theories will eventually replace the cholesterol-heart link. Most doctors still believe a combination of factors brings on heart disease, and will prudently continue to recommend low cholesterol diets, plenty of exercise and no smoking Warns Dr. William Castelli, director of the pioneering Framingham, Mass., heart studies: "If people think they can go out and eat all the hamburgers and hot dogs they want and be safe by taking vitamin B6, they're crazy...