Word: approach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early 1988, shows an artist still testing his limits. The strip's previous collections have been fixtures on The New York Times bestseller list, and Watterson's duo is at or near star status. Most readers are now familiar enough with the stuffed-tiger device that Watterson can approach it from some wonderful new angles...
...fall flat, I worry that Watterson will start creating a series of new personas for Calvin without improving either the presentation of those characters or the psychological depth of Calvin. Yukon Ho! focuses on the presentation more than showing a more human side to Calvin, but the approach is still fresh...
...unveiling a sweeping new approach to the crisis last week, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady all but repudiated Baker's program, which promised new loans for debtor countries once they instituted economic reforms. Instead, he called for measures that would help reduce Third World debt. "Our objective," said Brady, "is to rekindle the hope of the people and leaders of debtor nations that their sacrifices will lead to greater prosperity in the present and the prospect of a future unclouded by the burden of debt...
...that it must embrace everything. But I believe we don't have enough options and resources for this. We are not mature enough. We have not yet gone through psychological restructuring in regard to the democratization of society. So we have to move forward by stages. I favor this approach. One stage yields one result, then the next stage yields another, thus forming a chain of restructuring. Of course, one of the first links in the whole chain is that of the political system. Starting here, we must then improve living standards and concentrate our resources on this, even...
This scattershot approach makes it difficult to achieve the cynically effective manipulation of TV coverage that was a hallmark of the Reagan Administration. Sununu and White House imagemeister Steve Studdert express disdain for the obsessive attention to television and press coverage under Reagan. But a former top Reagan official points out that "control of the evening news and the headlines is one of the few tools available" for a President who was elected without any specific mandate, whose political opposition controls both houses of Congress, and who has little federal money with which to buy votes...