Word: lowlevel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Iraq, an important oil producer and supposedly proSoviet, has been making efforts "for the last five, six years, even longer than that" to develop contacts with the U.S. Partly this is because it is afraid of Iran, whoever may be in charge. And Tahtinen even saw opportunities for "lowlevel cooperation" between the U.S. and Afghanistan, which has a treaty with the U.S.S.R...
...that Senate investigators were looking into the possibility that surplus campaign funds had been used to buy the estate. That story got considerable play, but the basic allegation has never been supported. Newsweek a year ago reported that John Dean had information to the effect that some "lowlevel White House officials at one point considered assassinating the President of Panama." Neither Dean nor anyone else ever corroborated that grabber...
...Korda's scenario, the sexes do meet. The "lowlevel satyromania" beneath the chill surface of office life engenders assorted love affairs. But because of the status scramble most liaisons are ersatz. When the colleagues of one executive discovered that contrary to the sly suggestions he liked to make, he was really not sleeping with his pretty secretary, the poor chap felt obliged to fire her and take another job himself. Here, as elsewhere, Korda often chooses an odd example, then proceeds on the assumption that it is some kind of norm. In real life, secretaries are often victimized...