Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Naturally I have no way of telling who comprised the "sampling of writers, editors and agents" that decided that my novel Sophie's Choice "needed more editing." But I do know that in the hands of Robert Loomis, my editor at Random House, the book received the most intelligent and capable scrutiny possible, and I would not want to change a word...
...Gerald Ford for the debates with Carter in 1976, is leading a team that is compiling 50 short papers on issues, which Reagan will study this weekend at his temporary Virginia home. Says one adviser: "A debate of this kind is based on style and a few facts. We know Reagan has the right style. He'll be prepared on the facts...
...dollar amount. There is one key difference. Ironically, Carter boasts that compared with Reagan's, his plan is tilted more toward encouraging business investment and less toward giving consumers more money to spend. Quips Alfred Kahn, Carter's anti-inflation adviser: "I'd like to know the night and the hour when the Republicans and Democrats exchanged economic philosophies...
...debate has the Administration lobbied so vigorously in Congress. Emissaries from Jimmy Carter regularly called on undecided Senators and Representatives. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie made an impassioned plea to his old friends on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. According to a Senate aide, he said in effect: "I know it's a tough one, but you guys should go along with me on it." Despite these efforts, both the Senate committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week embarrassed Carter by voting to veto his June decision to sell India 38 tons of enriched uranium to fuel...
Robert Strauss, the Carter-Mondale chairman, subscribes to the belief that politics is a kind of sport, however serious the consequences. "It is an exciting spectacle," he says. "There is a real difference between these men. I know which one I think is best, but I'm not God. The American people will be God in November, and I'm sure they will come down on the right side." To Strauss, that is the sort of drama that makes life meaningful. He moves instinctively, putting in long hours but finding that the excitement leaves him less tired than...