Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invading investigators a lead to look into, as did all those ballyhooed claims that Carter had trimmed "Big Government" and inefficiency in his 1970-1974 tenure in the Governor's mansion. At the same time, out on the Iowa delegate trail, the roving press pundits following Carter took note of his expediently pliant statements on abortion. Columnists Robert Evans and William Novak inveighed against Carter's abortion hedging, and major liberal newspapers and magazines picked up the theme. Robert Healy, executive editor and grand polemicist of the Boston Globe, entered the fray with a series of columns denouncing Carter...
...remained for the old-hand outgoing editor Saylor to add the sobering note: "Really, though, our only general philosophy is just stabilizing the magazine, making sure that we'll be coming out the following year"--and making sure those advertisements stay in the Columbia Journalism Review
...that light note there was a motion to adjourn, which passed by a voice vote...
Then it was Bailey's turn. Wearing a charcoal gray suit, the banty, 5 ft. 7¾ in. ex-Marine flyer walked to the lectern, folded his arms, leaned toward the jury and, without glancing at his notes, delivered a calm, 30-minute summary of his case. There would be no denial that Patty was in the bank, he said, but he urged the jury to note that "perhaps for the first time in the history of bank robbery, a robber was directed to identify herself in the midst of the act." Patty, his argument ran, was a normal, marriage-bound...
...Break. The oil exporters have refused to give their poorest customers a price break, preferring to help out through direct grants and loans, plus investments in such agencies as the World Bank. OPEC members note that their aid expenditures have made up a higher proportion of their own G.N.P.s than have the contributions of industrialized countries. But the OPEC nations have run staggering cash surpluses and are in a far better position to give...