Word: writes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filled his brother John's seat in the Senate. He has remained there since. His classmates are acutely aware of his membership in their ranks. In their Class Report statements some urge him to bring even greater renown to the class, while other write things like "President Carter has been a disaster for this country and I don't think our classmate's performance would be much better...
...write you in order to explain why we are not pledging to make any contributions to the Harvard-Radcliffe Fund, lest you attribute this fact to ingratitude or niggardliness...
...will not be dissuaded even if Kennedy strongly vows his unavailability. Says she: "This is a draft movement, and the nature of a draft is to persuade a reluctant candidate he must run." Polls in the Granite State show that if the Senator does enter, even as a write-in, he would easily defeat the President...
...draw some attention to the subject of depreciation, Bill Miller has been promoting a slogan that sounds like a Super Bowl play: 1-5-10. His idea is to allow a full write-off in just one year for all equipment, such as pollution-control gear, that the Government requires companies to install, a five-year depreciation for other new equipment and a ten-year writeoff for new plants and commercial buildings. In a speech to the Advertising Council several weeks ago, Miller even pulled out two miniature footballs, emblazoned 1-5-10, and told his audience...
Humor is his usual vehicle, but he can also write with a haunting strain of melancholy, with delight or, as in his 1974 meditation on inflation-pinched old people shopping timidly at the supermarket, with shame and outrage: "Staring at 90-cent peanut butter. Taking down an orange, looking for its price, putting it back... Old people at the supermarket are being crushed and nobody is even screaming...