Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort run by the Federal Government is the set-aside programs for minority-owned businesses. In 1986 more than $4 billion in federal contracts was allotted to such firms, and enthusiastic support for the programs cuts across the ideological spectrum, from Ronald Reagan to liberals in Congress. The political appeal of this kind of compassionate capitalism is almost irresistible: fostering entrepreneurship among blacks, Hispanics and other minorities with dollars the Federal Government would have spent anyway...
They are, on the face of it, a rather conventional bunch, not greatly distinguished by sex appeal or intelligence or wit. Movie stars have glamour at least, and champion athletes grace. But what do the ruling Windsors of Britain have above and beyond their right to rule? This week, as Queen Elizabeth marks her official birthday, one may well feel justified in asking what divine right inheres in her -- an almost powerless figurehead in a country now past its prime -- to command the attention of the world, let alone its enthralled admiration...
WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE George C. Marshall announced his monumental plan for post-war European recovery at Harvard's 1947 commencement, he was taking a risk. He gambled that his appeal to America's enlightened self-interest would overcome the reluctance of a public whose sentiments were increasingly averse to economic commitments abroad. Today, 40 years later, West German President Richard von Weizsacker will take his place on the steps of Memorial Church to address the Class of 1987. His presence reflects the enduring success of Marshall's plan...
Dukakis the candidate will rely on the experiences of Dukakis the governor as he attempts to translate the Bay State's economic success into a model for national economic policy that has popular appeal...
...chunks of Faulkner, Warren, and Flamingo Road that he has dropped in his literary Cuisinart and spread across the pages. The only thing is, Leland has ground his sources so fine that Mrs. Randall lacks the kind of semi-mocking tone that gives the post-modern credo its camp appeal. Instead, Leland has invested his novel with the virtues of the great Hollywood dramas of the 20's and 30's, where plots and characters you had seen many times before were distilled to perfect purity...