Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran arms deal reveal how disengaged Ronald Reagan is from the operation of his Government, a Chief Executive who is not only uninformed but chooses not to know what is going on in his name. For many close observers of Reagan, the surprise is not that his passive approach has got him into trouble, but that such a fiasco did not happen sooner...
...Clancy's Red Storm Rising, a potboiler about a non-nuclear war between NATO and the Soviet bloc. On a political trip the day before he left for Iceland, Reagan passed his time aboard Air Force One chatting with Secret Service agents. He negotiated with Gorbachev on instinct. His approach could have led to the type of breakthrough that happens only when leaders sweep aside details and discuss the big picture. Or it could have ended hopes for a limited agreement on European missiles and the use of Star Wars as a bargaining tool. In retrospect, the latter may have...
...COURSE, the Democrats will be criticized for such an approach. Some Reagan supporters will demand that they be gentle because the United States has important foreign policy goals, such as arms control, that will be set back if the President is too badly damaged. Others will call Democrats mean-spirited for being gleeful about the crisis...
...woman crouches to feed nuts to two squirrels, one of the furry creatures says to his companion, "I can't stand it . . . They're so cute when they sit like that." Larson's humans fare no better when . dealing with their own kind. As two scholarly explorers approach a tribal hut, the occupants race around hiding the TV set and telephone and yelling, "Anthropologists! Anthropologists!" The Far Side is not for those who think Dagwood and Blondie stretch the limits of wackiness. Two pilots sit atop a large naked infant on a runway. Says one flyer to the control tower...
...vastly greater, says Harriet Michel, president of the New York Urban League, "if black men, women and teenagers could get jobs when they needed them." When asked what would alleviate the breakdown of poor families, Moynihan replies simply, "Jobs." President Reagan defends his policies by arguing that his economic approach has led to the creation of new jobs, which he has called the "greatest social program we have...