Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consensus at the symposium: self-deprecating humor is a President's best friend and weapon. "The chance to be seen as a warm, relaxed human being with a twinkle-in-the-eye approach to himself is just too good an opportunity to miss," said Bob Orben, a leading gag writer and author of many of Ford's best lines. "Humor reaches out, puts a warm, affectionate arm around an audience and says, 'I am one of you. I understand you.' If you can laugh together, you can vote together...
...UNIVERSITY'S ENTIRE approach to protest has been one of disdain. The shantytown in the Yard last semester was looked upon as an odd extracurricular, and last spring's campaign for the Board of Overseers by three self-nominated candidates advocating divestment was viewed as an abomination of tradition. But pretending that there is no dissent and just hoping the protests will go away is not only poor strategy, it is precisely the sort of attitude that makes people so dissatisfied with Harvard in the first place...
...temptation is to reach for the obvious irony: trying to save lives, the father ordered the use of a defoliant that is strongly believed to have caused his son's malignancies and his grandson's disability. But this approach would give My Father, My Son a melodramatic unity it neither has nor needs. The strength of the book resides in its unassuming format, an album of family voices (father, son, wife and mother) that describe without self-pity or too much self-pleading the grave misfortune that has overtaken them...
...jobs at CBS were eliminated in 1985.) The move infuriated CBS News journalists, whose independence is a cherished tradition stretching back to the days of Edward R. Murrow. Adding to the outcry were complaints about efforts to jazz up -- critics said trivialize -- the division's approach to reporting the news. As discontent grew, a group of senior CBS journalists, including Anchorman Rather, 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt and Commentator Bill Moyers, made an offer to buy the news division outright from the parent company. They were told it was not for sale...
...catching stray cancer cells missed by surgery and destroying them before they can seed other tumors. Also, Fefer wonders, can sufficient numbers of TIL cells be produced to vanquish human tumors? Although only clinical trials will provide the answers, Fefer admits he is "optimistic about this (Rosenberg's) approach or an approach like...