Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to a Soviet participant, Brezhnev told Carter that the Kremlin, much like the hawks in the U.S. Senate, is not entirely happy with all of SALT li's provisions, but that the treaty reflects "everything that is realistically obtainable at the present moment." On the whole, he said, it is "a mutually acceptable balance of interests." He reaffirmed the Soviet commitment to détente, saying, "It is impossible for one of us to push the other off the surface of the earth or for one of us to remodel the other...
Illinois Senator Charles Percy, among others, wonders if the whole grandiose scheme is worth it, particularly since the Federal Government has been stuck with 75% of the total cost. When Percy asked the General Accounting Office to evaluate the system, it produced a six-volume report recommending that the Federal Government pull out because of the project's high costs and dubious effect...
Artificial pancreas. Responding to shifting levels of sugar in the blood, the pancreas constantly adjusts its secretion of insulin, delivering more during meals, when larger quantities are needed, less during exercise or sleep. Daily insulin injections can correct a deficiency, but are not the whole answer: often the insulin level is above or below what it should be, and the blood's sugar fluctuates wildly, probably aggravating the diabetic's other problems...
...fast fiction with a dash of suspense, the novel is fun. But if taken as what it purports to be, a deeper look at Washington morality than Ehrlichman provided in The Company, it falls far short of being anything near, well, the whole truth...
...with a few men in these very rooms, deciding life and death; now he was one of those men. It was not so much a feeling of pride; it was fulfillment. . . He wondered if they always felt high when they dealt with these issues of life and death. - The Whole Truth...