Word: aura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chris Biotti, another defenseman, is just big. He's 6-ft., 2-in. and weighs 200 lbs. He has an aura of his own because he was drafted in the first round of the NHL draft by the Calgary Flames. He's a pro, and he's playing for Harvard...
...scrambled last week to deflect blame for the Iranian arms fiasco away from themselves, a good number of fingers were pointed directly at Ronald Reagan's increasingly visible and often imperious chief of staff. More than ever Donald Regan, 67, seems to be out front these days, projecting an aura that at times makes him seem both commanding and condescending. With a self-confidence burnished by nine years as the chief of Merrill Lynch, he has set up a hierarchical structure that puts him alone atop the upward flow of information. Combined with Reagan's inclination to rely...
...John Albertine, vice chairman of Chicago- based Farley Industries: "The Fed has missed the boat. Real interest rates are still much too high." Agrees Paul Craig Roberts, a scholar at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The Reagan appointees are powerless in view of the Volcker aura...
Ditto for "The Unsupervised Infant." Litt's workshop creation, though full of energy and hysterically hyperexagerrated Jewish angst, has a disturbing stream-of-consciousness aura which smacks of rancid Saturday Night Live. And it's silly to boot...
...There's a real aura about her," he said. "She really is everything you wouldn't expect her to be: intelligent, charming, and funny...