Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brzezinski's greeting is usually, "Hi, how's life?" His humor is impish; when he was displeased with one Western leader recently, he turned the official's picture to face his office wall and thus "punish him." He can be arrogant, but he tries to defuse touchy situations in public by making self-deprecating remarks. He opened one press conference by declaring, "I will try to respond as best I can or as badly as I will...
...graduate of Holy Cross and Harvard Law, Califano worked on tax and corporate legal problems as a Wall Street lawyer before firing off a presumptuous letter in 1961 seeking a job from Cyrus Vance, then Secretary Robert McNamara's general counsel at the Defense Department. He became a Vance assistant and was spotted by McNamara. At 29, Califano was made a general Pentagon troubleshooter. In 1965 Lyndon Johnson lured Califano away to become his own special assistant. Ensconced in the White House and loving every minute of it, Califano helped shape many of the Great Society programs that...
...correct, it appears that the change in the LSATs does not necessarily allow the more able potential lawyers to excel, but rather merely extends the advantage enjoyed by those more proficient at math and at test-taking. Peter Liacouras, dean of Temple University's law school, told a Wall Street Journal reporter in February that the LSATs, even before the changes, failed to measure "common sense, motivation, judgement, idealism, client-handling ability, oral skills and leadership," among other skills...
Fogel left Harvard in 1928 without having successfully completed his general examinations and went to work on Wall Street. Except for the years between 1935 and 1945, during which Fogel left the stock market because of the Depression and World War II, he worked in the investment business continuously from 1928 until...
...phone rings. An anonymous male is upset by his premature ejaculations. The woman who answers the call flips through her "quickie book," a loose-leaf binder rilled with sexual information, and makes some suggestions. On the wall above her desk hang huge diagrams of male and female genitalia. The phone rings again. "My husband wants oral sex," a woman asks nervously...