Word: thins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that session Carter gave Chief Aide Hamilton Jordan authority to coordinate policies and pull policymakers into line. The President began concentrating on only the most important issues, dropping the original every-thing-at-once strategy that had spread him far too thin and exasperated Congress. As U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young put it, "In the early days Carter felt that he could force Congress and history and everything else to work according to his flow chart. He has learned that it doesn't happen that...
Part of the reason is that at midterm, time is running thin for many of Carter's hopes. All the appeals have been made to lesser authorities, and he has allowed himself to be the final judge...
...slight. Yet she was willing to listen to almost anybody who asked for an audience, even though her listening could be a form of stonewalling. At the end, the coffee cups empty, the ashtrays full, the air staled in the close room, Golda would show her interlocutors into the thin dawn light-red-eyed, hoarse, exasperated, exhausted, knowing themselves defeated by the unshakable conviction of this indomitable woman. "It is like arguing before a judge," said one participant. "When she makes a decision, it's made...
CAPD's secret? The wastes are filtered out not by the kidneys or a man-made substitute, but by another part of the body: the thin membrane lining the abdominal, or peritoneal, cavity and covering the organs that jut into it, including the stomach, liver, spleen and intestines, as well as the kidneys. To make this area accessible, doctors cut a small permanent opening just below the navel, then implant a tube that leads through the peritoneal membrane and into the cavity itself...
...Women realized they no longer had to totter around in spike heels and in pants so tight they couldn't breathe--they realized they did not wish to be "desired" by men as sexually attractive beings. And don't forget the hotpants craze, which every woman, fat or thin, squeezed themselves into...