Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group was arranged in part at December meeting in New York. Last month, columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak sharply attacked Galbraith, who was present at that meeting, for actively opposing hawks who are liberal on domestic issues...
Jerry Brandt, the group's present manager, was equally unimpressed when he first saw them. "They came in wearing orange blazers," he remembers, "and didn't get me very excited. But the next morning I couldn't get their sound out of my head. So I had them try again. The third week I said, 'Look, next time come back in here but leave the orange blazers at home.' Without uniforms, they really cut loose. And they were on their...
...present, the passenger's future is in the hands of Congress, which is considering a dozen bills to improve railroad service. The main features of most of them are contained in a bill being prepared by the Senate Commerce Committee. At a cost of up to $445 million over the next four years, the bill would provide funds for new equipment, subsidies for money-losing operations, and an office within the Department of Transportation to manage basic passenger services-in effect, a quasi-nationalized system. The plan is anathema to most proponents of private enterprise; yet, as even...
...Favor the first-person plural and the future tense, as in sentences beginning "We will . . ." If absolutely necessary, the present tense is permissible, but almost never the past. The past tense is history, irrelevant for the young...
...Present at the Creation, Acheson...