Word: approached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic candidate for President during the dark days of 1932 had few firm economic ideas. Buffeted by conflicting advice, he lamely tried to split the difference. His speeches were a study in contradiction, combining hints of bold spending programs with cries for a balanced budget. If Franklin Roosevelt's approach was inconsistent, even intellectually dishonest, it helped produce a landslide victory over Herbert Hoover and ultimately the New Deal...
...Yale Gay-Lesbian Studies Center, which sponsored last weekend's conference is one of several college-based gay activist groups attempting to introduce homosexuality as a legitimate approach to academic study, similar to the way feminists have introduced women's studies, said Yale Professor of History John Boswell...
...looking to a more coordinated approach," said Garrity, still hoping to find one room big enough into which to cram all the reporters...
...step-by-step approach, letting neither conservatives or radicals know what changes lie ahead; and "blitzkrieg" tactics to get individual reforms through. "The proposed reform is drafted in relative secrecy; ....and then, at the appropriate moment, it is dramatically unveiled...and the reform enacted quickly before its opponents can effectively mobilize...
...most fundamental questions, economists agree with the closest approach to unanimity they ever achieve, are: How long will the U.S. try to live it up on borrowed money? And can it summon the will to start the painful readjustment necessary to kick the habit -- a readjustment that grows more painful the longer...