Word: reals
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...broadly smiling Ronald Reagan, who had challenged Nixon for the 1968 G.O.P. nomination. Moreover, the occupant of the office, Nixon's director of the Office of Management and Budget, often proudly pointed to both Reagan's grin and the handwritten inscription under it: "The smile is for real, thanks to you. In friendship and warm regards, Ron." Said the OMB boss to one visitor: "Now, there is a man who really knows how to cut budgets...
...like laziness or sloppiness or slovenliness." After World War II, he joined Merrill Lynch, became its president in 1968 and chairman in 1971. Under his leadership, the firm, already biggest in the U.S. securities industry, became a financial supermarket with thriving new lines of business in insurance, real estate and consumer lending. Having accomplished what he set out to do, Regan had begun to think of stepping down. Two years ago he and his wife Ann, who have four grown children, bought a house in Mount Vernon, Va., for their retirement...
...gift they lost decades ago--A teachable theory of creation, For Darwin was wrong, as we know. A side-trip to Detroit, just briefly--long enough to leave two gifts: A loosening of emission standards And for K-Car sales a lift. Then on to the national forests--The real environmental dangers--He sets all of the trees ablaze And laughs to the forest rangers. His resting place is Washington, A home for the tired and the sore; The transition team removes its gear And liquor begins to pour. "I come bearing gifts," says St. Ronald, "A bagful of Christmas...
...Exchange, of which Wellesley is a member. "Because Wellesley is single-sex and so isolated, everyone wants to get away at one time or another," says Jordan, who will probably spend next year at the University of California at Berkeley. "Wellesley is too mellow for me; I miss the 'real' college atmosphere of frats, football games and parties," she says...
...year thing. A political thing. And now we are back again," Rothstein says. "We do what Exxon does, only we are non-profit--and we don't have exploration costs. But out basic philosophies are directly contradictory. We are competitors, in an absolute sense, not a real sense. We are an idea. And if we are legitimized other people may decide...