Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From himself embodies John Maynard Keynes' warning that the real difficulty in changing any enterprise lies not in developing new ideas but in escaping from old ones. "The problem for us and him," says From, "is that Clinton promised to be different. He's been that a bit, but the whole is less than the sum of the parts. The fundamental change he pledged hasn't come. We've been consistent in articulating the ideas he won on, but he hasn't been consistent in advancing them. We were at this before Clinton, and we'll be at it after...
...have forced both sides to adjust. Language has been one problem. Another, according to Brewster Shaw, NASA's director of space-shuttle operations: "We've learned that the Russians are not as schedule-oriented as we are. Our people stand around and feel they're being slowed down a bit. [The Russians] have a different way of viewing the world than we do. It's kind of like getting married...
...next two decades, the liberals managed to score victories in the face of what should have been superior numbers. But even if they have lost ground slowly, they have lost it all the same. Last week as Burger was laid to rest, so too was another good bit of the Earl Warren legacy. When in a single day the court can rule against a black-majority voting district and in favor of public funding for a Christian student magazine--and for good measure approve a cross erected by the Ku Klux Klan in a public park...
...That has been a very successful collaboration," Devitt said about her work with Mark. "Her goal has been to theatricalize this movement, not as a show bit, but integrate it into a character...
...bit too polished, in fact. Cartwright's characters have more than one dimension, and his view of a culturally debased world is properly droll. But he can't resist tarting up his tale with a bit of porn and pretense. He gravely quotes Elie Wiesel on how Auschwitz negates any attempt to fictionalize it, and then includes fictional scenes of the Holocaust. And did Cartwright really have to call his journalist hero Curtiz, which sounds like Joseph Conrad's Kurtz? Can't anybody write about Africa without invoking Heart of Darkness...