Word: subject
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical day this fall, he started work at 7:30 a.m., going over a briefing book with three staffers at his home, a rambling, 16-room gray-shingled house in McLean, Va., that overlooks the Potomac River and is surrounded by five wooded acres. The subject was immigration, and as Kennedy flipped through the pages, he read questions he had scrawled in blue ink the night before. He kept asking for obscure facts, almost as if he were probing to make certain that the aides knew what they were talking about. Says...
Kopechne's death and Kennedy's actions that night have been the subject of a police inquiry, court inquest, at least five books and countless investigations by magazine, newspaper and TV reporters. Almost everything in Kennedy's description of the night's events has been challenged; even the judge who presided at the inquest was skeptical. But Kennedy has steadfastly stuck by his account, which he first related on TV a week after the accident, and after he had consulted with at least seven old Kennedy hands. He has denied that he was drunk, that...
...first-person account of the expulsion of 50,000 Palestinian civilians from their homes near Tel Aviv during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Some of Rabin's former colleagues disputed his account; the censors' action was presumably based on the argument that any discussion of the subject by former officials tends to damage Israel's reputation overseas and to bolster Arab claims to territory that has long since become part of Israel...
...Reserve Board insists that it puts little emphasis on weekly figures, which have always been subject to revision. But investors may logically wonder how the Fed can smoothly control money if its economists cannot be sure-within several billions-what the supply is from week to week...
...case, the money fund yield is not so large as it seems. The interest paid by most funds is subject to federal, state and local income taxes, just as are savings...