Word: lists
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...among them: George Marshall, Dean Acheson and Henry Kissinger). Foreign policy experts in the U.S. and abroad are reluctant even to discuss the attributes of an "ideal" Secretary, contending that no such paragon could exist. But they do talk about the qualities needed to make a Secretary effective. The list is well worth the attention of Alexander Haig-and Ronald Reagan...
...specializes in hotel management. Says Maria: "We hope our daughter will have a better life, because she's educated-not just a worker like us." Bozena, who has a steady boyfriend, may be in line for an apartment of her own. Her parents put her on the waiting list of the municipal housing authority when she was eleven, hoping that she would get an apartment when she turned...
...engaging random citizens and family relations in casual conversation, I never heard the President mentioned until I brought him up. The silence didn't seem a result of gloom, and certainly not of shame or humiliation. Billy's breakfast hangout, the Best Western Inn of Americus, did list crow on the menu of Nov. 5; but that's only consistent with the air of amused and stoic relief that greeted all my inquiries...
Under a new constitution that Guyana's rubber-stamp parliament approved in October, Burnham gained virtually limitless authority as President and Commander in Chief. Nonetheless, he called for another show of support-specifically, 75% of the electorate. Opposition candidates were not allowed to see a list of eligible voters, even after the government blithely removed more than 111,000 names, or about 20% of the electorate. There are accusations that other names have been added, including those of victims of the 1978 Jonestown massacre...
Cabbies and barbers have long been assailed for marathon talking, but it is unjust that they so often wind up at the top of the list of nuisances. Indeed, cabbies are often mute and sullen, and ever since barbers became stylists they have felt sufficiently superior to clients that their urge to talk has diminished...