Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...nearest thing to an honest man to come to light in a long while, and America had better grab him before he and we become extinct...
...patch up relations with dissident Republican liberals by assuring them that they are "welcome" in the G.O.P.−and that he will not repeat his 1970 purge of such anti-Administration Republicans as New York's Senator Charles Goodell. Already he is beginning to do a bit better with Congress: the Senate sustained his veto of a bill limiting television campaign spending, and last week a House-Senate conference restored most of the SST development funds that the Senate had earlier...
There is considerable doubt that the latest report will have any better results than similar if less probing studies in the past. Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves and are rarely amenable to drastic change, even from within. Asked one career diplomat: "Have you ever seen a bureaucracy cutting itself to the roots?" One high State Department official was even more frank about the reasons for surgery: "That we published 'Diplomacy for the '70s,' a tome of 610 pages, proves that we have too many people looking for something to do." Whatever creative momentum can be built must...
...tries to keep a step ahead. He relaxed the rules on hair and beards before any Z-gram mentioned them, wears his own hair in a long wavy pompadour with modest sideburns. Moreover, he is sending his base barbers to hair-styling school so his airmen can get something better in their $1 cuts than sheer sidewalls. "We're putting in female shampooists too," says Chandler. "You might think we're going a little gay around here...
...pilots, enlisted crews and mechanics has long promoted an informal closeness. "There's no saluting in the flight line," observes a mechanic at Randolph Air Force Base. Indeed, enlisted personnel have normally lived in two-or three-man rooms since the 1950s, and their technical expertise has earned them better treatment than in other services. Major General Frank M. Madsen Jr., commander of Keesler Air Force Base, discloses that he has three enlisted men who report any ill treatment of airmen directly to him. "Their identity," he says, "is known only to me, themselves...