Word: backroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachussets House of Representatives Thomas McGee did an odd thing last week. He voted against a proposal which limits the freedom of the press in the Statehouse, and also closes the political process to the public. Odd because McGee is a politician known for his closed door policies and backroom style of politics before his ouster from the speakership by current House Speaker George Keverian...
...economist, Stone is more interested in laboring in the library than in the spotlight of public-policy making. Says he: "The economists who talk policy are striking figures, not a retiring, backroom boy like me." The new Nobel laureate is somewhat critical of his own profession, maintaining that too many economists today overspecialize and do not know enough history and psychology. "Economists," he says, "propose remedies to government and do not take into account the ability or inability of people to change." -By John Greenwald...
...TARGET of Bob Woodward's latest investigative efforts had been a politician rather than as actor--and if the point had been to illustrate the seamy underside of Washington rather than Hollywood--nobody would have said anything. The backroom deals, the corruption, the slime of Captial Hill, i.e., the stuff that made Woodward big-time--that's okay for public consumption, the more so since Woodward and sidekick Carl Bernstein took that gloss off politicos for good with their reporting on Watergate in the early 1970s...
...depression and fragmentation that became an emblem of the late '60s. Those were also the years when Didion did some chilly observing of Nancy Reagan in the uncomfortable role of the perfect Governor's wife. Although the Victors have Kennedyesque political notions and glamour, the hilarious backroom detail in Democracy may come from Sacramento...
...Administration were simply trying to tighten the belt on foreign aid, its backroom maneuvering toward that end would not seem so callous. But that is clearly not the case; President Reagan just recently requested more guns and assistance for several Latin American countries. The White House simply wants to pressure Israel to get but of Lebanon and change its policies in the occupied territories. Ultimately, Washington hopes to weaken support for Begin and usher the Labor opposition into power...