Word: abjection
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These past few weeks, only a sadist could take pleasure in watching Stephanopoulos sputter as he tried to explain to skeptical -- and even scornful -- reporters the abject reinstatement of five employees from the White House travel office who had been summarily fired a week earlier. And only Saturday Night Live's writers could enjoy the spectacle of Myers trying to defend the White House's farcical attempt to turn a female TV reporter into a presidential makeup artist during a Clinton visit to New Hampshire. Why had a White House staff member asked the local journalist, who was about...
...book of love. The artful introspection of his previous record, 1991's The Soul Cages, has been replaced by a puckish objectivity; each song is a self-contained vignette, distilling a moment or sometimes an entire life, traversing the emotional spectrum from unfettered joy to the abyss of abject despair. Sting's sonic palette has grown impressively eclectic: he illustrates each tale with a sure-handed array of dramatic colors -- a stroke of Spanish guitar here, a daub of blue trumpet there...
There was plenty of sarcastic speculation about what happened between Monday afternoon, when NBC was defiantly dismissing GM's charges, and Tuesday morning, when it drafted an abject apology largely on GM's terms. NBC News president Michael Gartner says he simply realized that he had goofed by speaking first and asking questions later: "The more I learned, the worse it got. Ultimately I was troubled by almost every aspect of the crash. I knew we had to apologize. We put 225,000 minutes of news on the air last year, and I didn't want to be defined...
This is a school with little going for it: no special government programs, no foundation grants, no major benefactors. It is not a magnet school, not a school for gifted children, not special in any way -- except for the extraordinary things that go on inside. America's abject inner-city schools may yet be rescued by a new commitment from Washington or by the bold reform movement gathering strength in the think tanks and universities. But in every city there are schools like this one that are not waiting to be saved, which offer a case study...
Several administrations have had economic coordinating offices. Some were workable power centers; others were abject failures. By all accounts, the best was President Ford's Economic Policy Board. "Ours worked for two reasons," says William Seidman, the former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairman who ran the board. "First, Ford insisted that no decisions be made until they passed through the board's processes, which kept end runs to a minimum. Second, ((Treasury Secretary)) Bill Simon wasn't interested in running the day-to-day operation. He forcefully presented Treasury's view but never pulled rank. He was satisfied...