Word: taking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Down it doubtless will go as Kennedy is forced to take more specific stands on issues about which he so far has been vague. Says New York Democrat Howard Samuels, a Carter supporter: "So far, Kennedy has been getting a free ride. He is carrying on his shoulders the uncompleted agendas of a collection of specific interest groups?blacks, the young, the poor, the working class. He can't satisfy them...
...edging toward the center on too many issues. Many agree with liberal Democrat Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin that "it is inevitable in a campaign for you to moderate your views." Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont disagrees. Says he: "People where I come from want their leaders to take a position. Those who try to shift with the wind tend to lose...
...requested such a machine and then used it so sporadically is unclear. He did like to keep written synopses of most Oval Office meetings; but he almost always either had an assistant take notes or dictated his recollections afterward. Whitman, who transcribed many of the tapes, points to the machine's deficiencies. After typing the first summary in 1953, she typed at the bottom that ''large portions of the tape were completely garbled.'' Five years later, when Queen Frederika visited the Oval Office, the recorder was still not cooperating: the transcript simply notes that...
From 1910 until the end of World War II, Korea was a Japanese colony. Park, like other Korean officer candidates, was required to take a Japanese name (Masao Takagi) and an oath of loyalty to the Emperor...
...West Bank and the Gaza Strip, than for the Israelis and the Arabs to live mixed together. Israel would keep its forces in these areas-to defend itself, not to interfere in the lives of the Palestinians. We would not drive them away, and we would not take from them a single acre of land. But we should have the right to settle where we choose if there is either state land or land...