Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Boskin seems assured of having Bush's ear, he will have to share it with two other, better-known members of the President's economic team: Richard Darman, the designated head of the Office of Management and Budget, and Nicholas Brady, the Treasury Secretary. Darman has already emerged as Bush's chief strategist for the coming slugfest with Congress over the budget deficit; Brady, a close friend of the President's, has staked out Wall Street reform and U.S. competitiveness as his turf. But Boskin may hold his own; he has a rapport with the President that Darman lacks...
...possessions . . . We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it . . . in all things, generosity...
John Kennedy's "ask not" formulation was better put, and Eisenhower's too: "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." But Bush's simplicity was profound, and more in keeping with his underlying message. After a negative campaign that valued victory above all, Bush's positioning himself as a moral leader may seem strange. But the new President, for one, believes that the election "was then" and that the "time to govern" should obliterate inconvenient memories...
...acceptable in the face of international criticism. During the past year soldiers have been instructed to beat rioters; drop gravel on them from helicopters; fire tear gas, rubber bullets, plastic bullets. None of it has ended the uprising. And even some Likud members doubt the new measures will do better. "I don't think there is a lot of logic or common sense in shooting a boy when he's already finished throwing his stone and is running away," said Minister Without Portfolio Ehud Olmert...
...than replacing Paul Kirk as their top technician. Ironically, Brown could end up rivaling Jesse Jackson as America's pre-eminent black leader and thus steal some thunder from the man whose campaign he helped manage and whose specter has hovered over this contest. Brown would also become, for better or worse, a symbol of his party: either an embodiment of the commitment to fairness and equality that has been at the heart of the Democrats' creed or, from another viewpoint, the final snub to those white voters who feel the party has become beholden to blacks and special interests...