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...Carter's easy-going, all-embracing campaign style, though remunerative ($6.50 tickets to the Providence concert drew almost 10,000 takers, while a $25-a-couple cocktail party drew only a couple hundred well-heeled citizens), may prove to be counterproductive. Because harmony has, after all, hardly been the watchword for recent presidential politics in the South, and the former Georgia governor may just be playing Mr. Good Ol' Boy to too many people at once...
When this expression first hit the streets as the watchword for the '75 Red Sox, the intent was that it should not be taken seriously. Unfortunately, however, this is exactly what too many people have been doing, with the result being an unprecedented decrease in the demand for laundry bags, and a corresponding increase in the sale of nose plugs...
Keep Yourself Safe. This is the watchword for all ironworkers. Cherry has seen friends fall off beams from dozens of floors up: all through the book there are quick noises and men vanishing instantly into the wind and silence below. They pay the widow and children a full day's pay, and another connector takes the dead man's place. There's another risk: unemployment. Ironworking is dependent upon the amount of building going on, and many ironworkers are lucky to work most of the year. When a job is finished, they look for more work, wait in line. When...
...regulations will be submitted to the President for approval. Weinberger hopes to put the new rules into effect early next year. "Our role," says he, "is to be a catalyst, and we will use the full panoply of enforcement to bring about this change." But "flexibility" will be the watchword. "We don't want a backlash...
...Chinese people have been carefully prepared for the American presence. Gone from the streets are banners saying U.S. IMPERIALISM IS THE MAIN ENEMY OF MANKIND. Instead, the watchword is a quote from Mao: "Make the past serve the present, and foreign things serve China." Bruce's arrival was given routine coverage in Chinese papers...