Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder if Soviet readers enjoyed the pictures and insights of our most "secret" agency. Americans want an intelligent CIA-not another public gimmick...
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Toth's detention could endanger the Belgrade conference. Thanking the President upon his release, Toth observed that "when you are out there in the woods alone you begin to wonder if anyone is taking an interest." Heading for home, Toth and his family flew to London, where he was telephoned by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. After telling Toth of Carter's relief that the incident was over, Brzezinski said: "We were also concerned because your treatment raises certain fundamental principles-the free flow of information, free access and freedom of the press." Brzezinski was choosing his words...
Secret of Success. Vollard was a bizarre figure: no wonder other dealers saw him as a métèque, an interloper, before they learned to fear him. He arrived in Paris to study law in 1890, coming from the insignificant French colony of Reunion Island. He had black blood in his veins. A vast, slow-moving creature like a sloth-though one of his artists, Dunoyer de Segonzac, nastily compared him to a giant ape hanging in the shop entrance-Vollard cultivated a strategy of immobility. He stroked his cat, pretended to doze, listened and said little...
...pragmatic view: only heavy foreign private investment can ameliorate the country's unemployment. The jobless rate is now about 13%, and some 30,000 youths leaving school this summer will join the ranks, plus farm-laboring families that are being displaced by more efficient agriculture. No wonder the electorate is seething with dissatisfaction...