Word: professed
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...name. The money is earmarked for the sort of things that might well help to land a man in Burke's Peerage: the training of journalists and the improvement of communications media in underdeveloped countries, chiefly Africa. Thomson does not deny the ambition, but neither does he profess it. He has told inquirers that he once traced his ancestry back to 1540, "when two of them were hanged for sheep stealing...
...arrangement, says Charles de Gaulle, since it brings it into nuclear politics. But France minds. De Gaulle rejected the subsequent Anglo-American invitation to join in the NATO nuclear command, and is going ahead more determinedly than ever to develop his own force de frappe. White House staffers profess surprise at De Gaulle's anger over Nassau. They say that the idea of the multilateral NATO command was devised deliberately to include France. Besides, Kennedy invited De Gaulle to visit him in Florida at De Gaulle's convenience either before or after Nassau, and was coldly told that...
...Three profess to be unworried, point out that their own revenues have increased an average 15% this year. They figure that the businessmen travelers who make up the bulk of their clientele are unlikely to try the little-known discounters just to save a few dollars. Says one Hertz executive: "Businessmen on expense accounts just don't care about a bargain." But if the company controllers who check expense accounts begin to care more about a bargain, the discounters could get quite a lift...
Iannello's saga contains in microcosm all of the elements of the Massachusetts political profess. Yet the citizens of the Commonwealth, not Iannello and his fellow politicians, are responsible for this process...
However, the presidential system envisaged by De Gaulle dispenses with the checks and balances of the U.S. presidency, which many Gaullists profess to admire. "The President," said he, "must be a chief, not an umpire." All foreign policy, defense and budgetary decisions would in effect still be "reserved" for the President. Parliament would be a virtual rubber stamp body, subject at any time to dissolution by the all-powerful chief executive. And though De Gaulle has described a strong presidency as an eventual "influence of continuity," his blueprint contains no provision for vice-presidential succession in an emergency...