Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...academics to study the military as a distinct group within society; Melvin Laird, 57, who as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 led the fight for the all-volunteer force, and is now the Washington-based senior counsellor on national and international affairs for the Reader's Digest; Senator Sam Nunn, 41, the Georgia Democrat who is chairman of the Committee on Armed Services' Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel and has become widely respected as one of Capitol Hill's most articulate defense analysts; Lieutenant General Glenn Otis, 51, the Army's Deputy Chief...
...This is a really involved zoning change--it took the community development department three years to formulate it and they want us to digest it in two months," Danehy said, adding he would probably vote for rezoning once the plan had been revised...
...indulgent and the absurd. No self-respecting author would quote articles from The American Spectator at length and then reveal--several times, in fact--that he wrote them. But then again, the man who wrote this book boasts that he has been published in international editions of Reader's Digest. There are numerous factual errors; on a list of obstacles that stand between the candidates and the conventions, Bakshian overlooks the New York primary. Where Bakshian is at his best--conversational, witty, on target--he is quoting liberally from people who really know their stuff and adding in analysis that...
...Roundtable. Edward McAteer, 53, of Memphis, former Colgate-Palmolive sales executive, aims at using this group to train leaders. He focuses on what Conservative Digest calls "pro-God, profamily, pro-America causes." The Round-table is scheduling six seminars this year, including one for 11,000 this June in the Dallas Coliseum. Says McAteer: "If people know why they need to be involved, they will find out how to be." A favorite question in interviews with candidates during the primaries: "If you were President, what would you do to change the spiritual and moral direction of the country...
...explanation for his silence: his mother (Elizabeth Norment) thinks someone lied to him; his teacher (Nancy Mayans) thinks he's ill; the principal (John Bottoms) sees it as the silence of a poet; and Mrs. Blade's lover, Chester, who seems to be a regular reader of Existential Digest, ascribes it to despair...