Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unfolding. Neither Attorney General Edwin Meese nor former Chief of Staff Don Regan did much to shake the devastating portrait that has emerged from the hearings of a secret foreign- policy apparatus run amuck and key officials more concerned with pulling together a convincing alibi than getting to the bottom of the tangled tale...
After his forceful testimony, the embattled George Shultz seems in no mood to resign. At the department he heads, morale soared. Said a Foggy Bottom official: "George went out and was George. He was honest and plainspoken. He showed the department to be the only honorable entity in all of the mess." From the White House came high praise from Reagan, though some presidential aides thought Shultz had been self-serving. A spokesman said the President hoped Shultz would continue at his post...
...sense, the quip is appropriate. Ritchie can take a nice cynical approach to all matters--the bottom line is fame. Soon Ritchie owns a fancy car, and says he loves to drive fast. It's heady stuff for a 17-year-old. To put it mildly, humility is not one of Ritchie's distinguishing features...
...candidate Dukakis radiates a far more simplistic version of cause and effect. "I speak to you as the Governor of a state which twelve years ago was bouncing around at the bottom of the barrel," he said in Tipton, Iowa. "Twelve years later we have a 3.5% unemployment rate, and we're now an economic showcase. How did it happen? Because we worked at it. We invested public resources; we got the private sector in; we involved citizens, mayors, business people...
Nobody wants every adventure picture to be as tame as a Spielberg cuddly toy. But RoboCop's pleasures are cold comfort. The thrills it elicits could have been generated by a very bright computer. The laughter it provokes catches in the throat like a nettle from the bottom of a popcorn...