Word: impression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day, deliberately delaying the announcement for maximum press attention, Carter appointed Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman Alfred Kahn, a hero in the airline deregulation push, to head his new anti-inflation drive (see box). How did the arrival of Kahn impress Carter's team of economic advisers? Said Schultze: "I feel like Churchill must have felt when he heard that the Americans were entering World...
...country boy, albeit a shrewd one from a far country - went to Washington seeking somewhat the same kind of improbable result. But to no avail. After four whirlwind days in the capital promoting his "internal settlement" approach to biracial government in Rhodesia, Prime Minister Ian Smith failed to impress even many of the 27 Senators who had invited him to Washington over State Department objection...
...DIDN'T WORK because Duryea so successfully developed a schizophrenic image. With the conservative upstate vote relatively safe, if only by virtue of party orthodoxy, he has managed to do what no conservative Republican has been able to accomplish in 30 years--impress the city voters. Most of this success, granted, is traceable to Carey's singular inability to make a favorable personal impression on anyone outside the range of third cousin: with a Dukakis-like reputation for brusqueness and tactlessness, Carey simply doesn't score many points with the casual voter or party worker. Despite his impressive accomplishments--lobbying...
...occasional petitioner entered, is bare except for a stela representing the two brothers with Osiris and Isis. A concealed chamber behind it may have contained the embalmed bodies of the brothers or, as some suggest, may have been used by a hidden priest to make oracular pronouncements to impress the faithful. But few of them would ever have heard him. For unlike a Christian church, the Egyptian temple was not designed for worshipers to gather to pray. Rather, it was a house built for the god himself, for his comfort and protection from prying eyes when he manifested himself...
Larry Brown looks as sharp as ever at quarterback, there's a herd of offensive backs all set to make some divots, and the receiver corps of Paul Sablock-John MacLeod-Rich Horner has done nothing but impress...