Word: powering
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Last month 240 American companies went to Peking to promote their products in the fields of transportation, drilling, power generation, agriculture and the manufacture of consumer goods. Although some 200,000 Chinese visited the exhibition, many American businessmen complained that they were not the high-ranking bureaucrats they had expected. Sales made at the show were a small $21 million, and contracts for $3.8 million more were under negotiation at the close of the fair. Grumman International, for example, displayed buses, fire engines and light aluminum trucks, but it received no orders. Said Burt Stern, Grumman's senior vice...
...cited National Review as his favorite magazine, and once said he used it in preparing his radio commentaries and political speeches. Says Buckley, a longtime personal friend of Reagan's: "Obviously, if what you write is being read by the Chief Executive, you've got more power...
...That power is an unaccustomed blessing for N.R. The fiesty little journal of opinion has spent most of its 25 years on the edge of financial collapse, making up each year's deficits -some as high as $500,000 -with regular eleventh-hour fund appeals and occasional subventions from Buckley. Yet the staff of 45, which operates out of rumpled Manhattan offices whose walls are plastered with Reagan stickers, is beginning to joke about being "an Establishment organ...
...scoffed at equal opportunity laws, asked why sex education, but not prayer, is allowed in public schools, urged the Republican Party to stand by its tough campaign plank on judicial appointments. Though N.R. is hardly one of the handsomest magazines around, it does exhibit a rare appreciation for the power and variety of language. As Ronald Reagan once quipped, "I have spent many happy hours in my favorite chair, National Review in one hand, the dictionary in the other...
...centuries on supposedly minor, "decorative" arts, and to help rehabilitate all fiberwork as a serious medium of visual discourse. So they do-at times movingly; and it is well to keep in mind how many of the vestments, arrases and other trappings whose function was to affirm male power, from the Bayeux Tapestry to the sacerdotal wardrobes of the church, were actually made by women...