Word: chapter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they do to protect Carter's image, the authors inevitably slip into the bottom line on the president. They label the chapter on his childhood "Just an ordinary little boy," and scattered throughout the remainder of the book are reminders of Carter's aggressive normalcy. "Carter fits in the American grain of thousands of upwardly mobile men and women in business and sales." Or, as Diamond concludes, "Jimmy Carter is like thousands of other middle-aged men of middling stature in authority in our society. He is the man next door--if you live in the nicest neighborhood...
...case of G. William Miller reads like a business-mystery novel-with the last chapter missing. The Treasury Secretary confidently told the Senate Banking Committee two years ago during hearings for his confirmation as Federal Reserve chairman: "I do know my company did not bribe anybody." But the Securities and Exchange Commission charges that Textron's Bell Helicopter division spent $5.4 million in foreign kickbacks in ten countries between 1971 and 1978. The largest was the $2.9 million payment to a firm, owned in part by the deposed Shah of Iran's brother-in-law, in connection with...
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 9-11 p.m.: Yet another chapter in the saga of the Heiden family: Beth skates in the 3,000 meters. In the women's giant slalom, Liechtenstein's Hanni Wenzel is the one to catch...
...Constitution. I think: no ERA, no draft." But other feminists, including Eleanor Smeal, the current president of NOW, refused to link the draft with passage of the ERA. Said she: "We are full citizens, and we should serve in every way." In a similar vein, the Atlanta chapter of NOW urged Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia to support "only that legislation which would require draft registration for persons of both sexes...
Professor Harry Miskimin, president of the Yale chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said yesterday the increase was a step in the right direction toward maintaining acceptable salary levels. He emphasized, however, that the increase does not keep pace with the rise in the cost of living and that Yale's salary scale is currently 20 per cent below that of other Ivy League schools...