Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phone calls between meeting Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin at Andrews Air Force Base. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger buttonholed Senators as they went in and out of the chamber. At one point, he chased Missouri Republican John Danforth up the stairs, then lost him in the maze of third-floor corridors...
...countrymen's defender of the faith. That charge is not right. In so many of my decisions, writings and actions I have shown my commitment to my religion. First, there are the books I have written. Second, there are all the holy places I have restored. Third, there are the pilgrimages I have made. And there's also what...
...Carter himself, and as usual he is getting conflicting advice. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Federal Reserve Board Chairman William Miller want him to start a tough program immediately. Vice President Walter Mondale and some other advisers also favor a strong program-but after the November congressional elections. A third group, including Domestic Policy Director Stuart Eizenstat, wants a relatively mild program, because a hard one would hurt Carter with labor and minority groups...
...prevent U.S. companies from selling South African manufactured goods in almost all black African markets, most of the firms are thriving on domestic sales alone. Says Dick Strain, the local head of Eli Lilly: "South Africa has the sophistication of a Western market and the development potential of a Third World country...
...father and stepmother-universally known as Mom and Pop Nelson-bask in the legend. Together they run Willie's Pool Hall in Austin, and Pop fronts a country band. Nowadays Mom and Pop also occupy Willie's $300,000 ranch house outside town. Willie's third wife, Connie, 34, a former Houston lab technician, got tired of the way fans treated the house as a combination crash pad and national shrine. So last year she and Willie retreated to a three-story Swiss chalet in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies...