Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crucial executive ability, above all for the Chief Executive of the U.S., is perceptiveness about people. This will bear heavily on the quality of the President's appointments and his ability to mold his people into an effective Administration. He must be shrewd enough to see when infighting is unavoidable, even useful, and when it is destructive. F.D.R., Truman, Ike, J.F.K. and for a time L.B.J. were good managers and motivators of people. Nixon's management methods brought us Watergate. Ford and Carter were weak as people managers. Reagan presided over some outlandish administrative arrangements last year...
...hearing, Councilor Thomas W. Danchy expressed concern that the revaluation would equalize the current differences between taxes on residential and commercial property. Business and industrial properties now bear a disproportionate amount of Cambridge's tax burden...
Robert Sinche, cheif economist at the investment firm of Bear, Stearns & Co in NewYork, said viewed the steady improvement in leading indicators as clear evidence that the economy was headed low and mild recovery...
Though the White House has talked tough publicly, there has been an ongoing debate within the Administration over how much pressure the West can bring to bear on the Soviet Union. Hardliners, particularly those in the Pentagon, say that economic sanctions might force the Soviets to slow military spending and be more cautious in foreign policy adventures from Afghanistan to Africa...
Brezhnev would do nothing to stop this slaughter-and Karmal, who was already disgruntled, began to bear a bitter grudge against the Soviet Union. Things soon went from bad to worse. The Shah had fallen in Iran. Taraki's policies seemed certain to ensure there would also be a massive Muslim insurrection in Afghanistan. Taraki's response was to slaughter any opposition within his reach. Moscow tried to persuade him that this was a recipe for disaster, he should not repeat Stalin's errors. Taraki told Moscow to mind its own business...