Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They seem more conservative, more tentative in expressing themselves politically, and sometimes less apt to question what's wrong with society as a whole," she says, recalling that in her day "professors had to discipline students' flights of fancy, while now they have to prod them to use their imaginations and think more creatively...
...hired New York Times National Security Correspondent Leslie Gelb to help shape the program. Gelb in turn recruited a panel of seven experts, called the "control group," who wrote a 100-page briefing book and picked the players. Their apt casting for President: former Secretary of State (and presidential candidate) Edmund Muskie. His nine advisers included two former Defense Secretaries: James Schlesinger, who had that title again, and Clark Clifford, who played the Secretary of State. Former Army Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer, who reluctantly wore his uniform, acted as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The group...
...bill, the Speaker's slipping leadership grip was evident: he found 65 Democrats voting against him. An even bigger factor in the loss was the partisanship of the Republican opposition. Fully 149 G.O.P. Representatives voted nay, only 13 aye. O'Neill's barbed protest was apt: "The next time I see Republican crocodile tears about the deficits, I will ask them where their party was today...
...never will, but those of us at Harvard want to believe it does. We want to reassure ourselves that we are "the best." People who have nothing to do with what happens on the field think it is some reflection on their greater worth. They are apt to harbor grudges when their self image is attacked. Losing teams have been turned on by fans who took a defeat too personally. Mickey Rivers almost never plays center field in Fenway Park and when he does he wears a batting helmet for protection against the cherry bombs thrown by fans who remember...
...employed full time. The pair got a baseball bat and beat Chin to death. Said he as he lost consciousness: "It isn't fair." When Ebens, 44, and Nitz, 23, were sentenced last March after confessing to the murder, Chin's dying complaint seemed all the more apt: Wayne County Circuit Judge Charles Kaufman gave the killers three years of probation and fines of $3,780 each. He said that the men, who had no prior criminal records, were "not the kind of people you send to prison." The light sentences enraged newspaper editorialists across the country...