Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week with three TIME correspondents to explain how the budget crunch could slow down his "compassionate" initiatives. But Bush told Washington bureau chief Strobe Talbott and White House correspondents Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame that he is "really looking forward to" spending time on diplomacy, including "the Soviet account." Excerpts...
...move away from the Reagan era's tacit approval of selfishness, an end to the glorification of greed. "Use power to help people," said the 41st President. "We are not the sum of our possessions . . . We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it . . . in all things, generosity...
...Louisville must have the cleanest dirty laundry in the country. Two books have previously been published and another is in the works about their squabbles over money and power and the subsequent sale of the family-owned Louisville Courier-Journal and associated enterprises. Passion and Prejudice is the first account of the troubles written by a participant. Sallie Bingham, 52, is the rebellious and talented daughter regarded by many as the catalyst who precipitated the breakup of the family business, which grossed the author $62 million...
...author's account of confrontations with her father, chairman of the board Barry Bingham, and her brother, publisher Barry Bingham Jr., as well as her versions of family and office politics, is too one-sided to be wholly plausible. Bingham's relations with her mother ring truer. At one point the matriarch is quoted as asking why her family could not be happy, since they were all rich, intelligent and beautiful. It is a fair question whose incomplete answer can be found in this resentful and blinkered book...
...have been romanticized by some as "fabulous, fun" times. However, even a superficial but full historical account of the times will show the 50 s as a time which was indeed painful, complicated and even life threatening for people of color. Civil rights were non-existent. Blacks did not vote or sit side-by-side with their fellow human beings in public places. Martin Luther King was actively engaged in the struggle for equality of all people. Women were mostly treated as sex objects. The portrayal of the 50 s in the light of this flier unintentionally excluded the experience...