Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Smith says his goals for the new year include "external funding and internal reforms:" finding better ways to fund the MBTA than through property taxes and improving management to be sure it is properly spent...
...whole, the show leaves you slightly befuddled. It's like flipping through someone else's photograph album. You have a vague sense that it all fits together somehow, but you're not really sure who's who, who knows who, or when the photos were taken. You can enjoy looking at the pictures, but you don't really know what you're seeing...
...State of the Union message, President Carter reiterated that aid to Pakistan should be considered a "first order of business." But U.S. officials indicated that legislation to authorize a military aid package was sure to be delayed because Washington and Islamabad were far from agreement on its size and scope. The Pakistanis continued to belittle a U.S. proposal of $400 million in aid as "peanuts," in General Zia's phrase, and planned to submit a lengthy military shopping list costing in the billions...
Nkomo's fence-mending efforts are hampered by a deep-seated white bitterness over the role of his guerrilla forces in downing two civilian Air Rhodesia Viscounts in September 1978 and February 1979. But Nkomo feels sure that the whites will eventually "forgive and forget." He may be right. A growing number of whites, led by former Prime Minister Ian Smith, believe that Nkomo is the only black leader with the charisma and political clout to pull the shattered pieces of Rhodesia together again. Said one white businessman who met him in Salisbury last week: "Politically speaking, Joshua makes...
...emotionless" composers like Pierre Boulez. But he refuses to join those readers of his first volume who saw him as a throwback to a better age. From his earliest years, he says, the world has shown him so much mistrust, hypocrisy and greed for power that he is not sure there ever was a Belle Epoque. More likely, with his talent, ebullience and "unconditional love of life," he has created his own epoch as he has gone along, a Rubinstein epoch. And a remarkable one it has been...