Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chain-smokes cigarettes. When near them, Miller sits in tolerant agony. But at the nation's central bank, Miller is very much in charge. Around the Federal Reserve's board room, which long was redolent with the fumes from Arthur Burns' briar, new black signs proclaim THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING DURING MEETINGS OF THE BOARD, and ashtrays have been removed...
...forced to sit in the smoking section of an airplane. As my seat mate began to light up, I leaned over and said, "No, I don't mind if you smoke, thank you. I throw up when I smell cigarette smoke." I had no further problem...
...been unconcernedly observing the approach of my 30th birthday, when a callow medical student on rounds described his patient as "this 32-year-old middle-aged female." Thank you, Lance Morrow, for restoring my original perspective...
...naivete, but also showed that Charles shrewdly understands the real source of royal authority in a democracy. "The first function of any monarchy," he has said, "is the human concern for people." Charles inherited this appreciation: the smashing success of the Queen's Silver Jubilee was in part a thank-you note for all the gracious concern she has lavished on her subjects for the past quartercentury. Over the years Prime Ministers have come to cherish their weekly meetings with her, knowing that her assessment of what Britons will tolerate, and what they will not, is particularly acute...
...difference in the education she got and that Princess Margaret got, and the discipline that the Queen has been under and Princess Margaret has not. I don't say Margaret would ever have made such a good Queen. But she could have been brought up very differently. Elizabeth, thank God, married the right man, himself brought up in the navy, and has an eldest son who is also a professional naval officer...