Word: treating
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Reagan chose to treat the Senate vote as a triumph. Coming home from Europe Friday afternoon, he stepped off a Marine helicopter onto the South Lawn of the White House and exclaimed to a welcoming crowd of more than 100 Government employees, salted with luminaries like Treasury Secretary James Baker: "How sweet it is to return to a 50-49 Senate victory for spending restraint and no tax increase!" He insisted that if zero real growth in military spending is inadequate to protect the national security, "I will not hesitate to request, and the Senate leaders have assured me that...
...considered lacking in intellectual brilliance, but he was quick- minded and receptive to other people's ideas. The result, with a little help from his social connections, was an unending series of promotions. There was never a way to treat Dickie Mountbatten as if he were just another lieutenant. He had money of his own, and he had married the beautiful and exceedingly wealthy Edwina Ashley. It was a stormy union, marked by his many affairs and her infatuations, including one with Jawaharlal Nehru, but it lasted until Edwina's death in 1960. Stationed in Malta in the late...
Celebrities generally crave publicity, but not in this case. Said Cavett: "I just came back from Japan, and I much prefer taking a bath in public their way. Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing." Other well-known investors were not talking about their tax-shelter troubles, but a clue to Jong's possible feelings can be found in a scene from her latest novel, Parachutes and Kisses, which is some what autobiographical. The book's central character, Isadora Wing, learns from her accountant that...
Once admitted to Harvard, students were expected to treat administrative gurus with reverence befitting "their parents," Schollars could not speak in the presence of the president, tutors, fellows or other superior types, and no "disorderly gainsaying" was permitted. Anyone chanting "Derek Bok, get the word, this is not Johannesburg," could also expect strict censure, especially if he forgot to translate it into Latin...
...Texas meal, paid for by the Governor's political fund, was a home- cooked treat for the 419 volunteer Texas National Guardsmen participating in the Big Pine III war games. Invited by the Department of Defense, which frequently asks National Guard units to assist in maneuvers, the reservists flew down to play the bad guys in the second stage of the three-month-long joint operation. With 17 tanks and 17 armored personnel carriers, they staged a mock assault on a Honduran hilltop position, sweeping toward the encampment in a 4 1/2-mile-wide front while Honduran warplanes darted overhead...