Word: totally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual basis, each of the dismissals was not surprising; a few had been long expected. But the sum total of them, and Carter's wholesale slaughter approach, damaged the brave new leader image he is trying so hard to create. At the very announcement of the mass resignations, Washington was rocked by rumors, the dollar plunged around the world, and America's friends abroad asked ever more worried questions about what the President was attempting to achieve, and at what risk to America's stability. Across the U.S., a people who had at first been bewildered by the President...
...duties so important to the health of the Republic. Worse, he had to travel home each year to visit his constituents, and the allowance was a meager 40? a mile. What did he do? He padded his expense account, of course. He apparently claimed that he had traveled a total of 3,252 miles round trip from Washington, nearly double the actual mileage, producing a reimbursement of $2,601 for two trips home...
Critics of rent control criticized the board for the delay. "It's rent control in a nutshell, just one more example of their total inability to deliver." Richard Fraiman, president of the Cambridge Homeowners and Taxpayers Association, said...
...national guard with armored vehicles, howitzers, machine guns and other infantry equipment. The sale, which requires presidential and congressional approval, came within a week of the Saudi decision to increase its daily oil production for the next three to six months by a reported one million bbls. to a total of 9.5 million, enough to ease substantially the current world shortage. U.S. officials denied that there was any link between the military sales and the Saudis' decision to raise their crude production, even though there appears to be a growing rapprochement between Washington and Riyadh after months of strained...
Israeli Novelist Amos Oz has written of his people that their demand is absolute: "Either they have the best country in the world, the purest, the fulfillment of the highest moral standards, or else there is total disillusionment. Paradoxically, the outside world tends to view Israel with much the same perspective." Nowhere in the outside world are Israel and its actions subjected to greater scrutiny than in the U.S., home to 6 million Jews...