Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excerpts, Talbott met with Shevchenko to interview him for the introductions and review certain editorial problems. Reporter-Researcher Anne Hopkins, who independently checked verifiable material in the excerpts, also spoke with the author. "Even when he was on vacation in the Caribbean," she says, "he would keep in touch by phone...
...Fidel Castro. But the book's chief merit is its direct access to the mind of a callous and frightened man. His fears about antitrust suits, Las Vegas competition and staff loyalty pale before his phobias. Dreading germs, he dictated a "Procedures Manual" for handling anything he was to touch: "Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap . . . The door to the cabinet is to be opened using a minimum of 15 Kleenexes . . . Call Roy and have him come up to the house and awaken HRH at 10:15 a.m. sharp...
...President's budget seeks to rein in Medicare, which after Social Security is the Government's largest and fastest-growing entitlement program. By freezing reimbursements to doctors and hospitals at their present levels, the President would cut some $5 billion from projected 1986 costs. Such a reduction would immediately touch the pocketbooks of physicians who treat Medicare patients. Fair enough, perhaps, but it would also have a detrimental impact on the elderly and retired who depend on a service that would be likely to decline in quality. Says Jack Meyer of the American Enterprise Institute: "There is no immediate financial...
Such impasses are common in these stories, the residue of cross purposes and overstrained racial tolerances. In Dead Reckoning, a woman sets out on a sailboat with a new boyfriend. When they reach Nevis, she thrills to "my first true touch of paradise." Before long, her companion is locked in a battle of wills with a black beggar boy, who redoubles his efforts every time he is rebuffed. Soon the visitors are made to feel unwelcome, the woman especially so; she decides to abandon both the island and her partner. Her decision reminds her of an earlier tale...
...There's been a massive reaction by people in the pews against the very well-meaning New York boards that they never see," says Martin Marty, religion historian at the University of Chicago. A westward shift, he thinks, would be aimed at putting "the leadership in close touch with the way people are actually thinking." The Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Episcopal bishop of New York, counters that it is vital to be where "urban issues, poverty issues and the intensity of the social problems are right there under your nose...