Word: broads
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...after President Reagan tapped him to succeed ousted EPA Administrator Anne Burford, Ruckelshaus was already hard at work trying to raise the agency's reputation, and employee morale, from the ashes. "Ruck," as his friends call him, is a tall, witty lawyer with broad government experience and a reputation for integrity and administrative astuteness. He is expected to step up enforcement against corporate polluters, clean up toxic-waste dumps, beef up the agency's management and budget, and repair its shattered relationship with Congress. Ruckelshaus was the nearly unanimous choice of top White House officials. Said one Reagan...
...Academics Committee never pretended that the five-minute March 8 report was "broad-based". The report concluded. "These are our recommendations, in brief, based upon initial student input. The Academics committee will prepare a more detailed report this spring, with greater student input and more detailed suggestions." Isn't this the "well-reasoned and well-researched proposal for Core reform" which you so indignantly demand? Michael Abramowitz was given a transcript of the March 8 report, but chose not to include its conclusion in his March 9 article...
Peter Peterson, chairman of Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb, the New York City investment banking firm, and former Secretary of Commerce: "Bailing out troubled companies is a broad-based policy, not an individual phenomenon. Lee lacocca has not only been a phenomenon, he has been phenomenal. But should we build a broad-based policy on the assumption that another lacocca would be at the helm...
...italic, one of the predominant handwriting styles of the Italian Renaissance. It was developed by Ludovico degli Arrighi, a Vatican chancery scribe, who in 1522 composed the first writing manual for popular use, La Operina. Like much Western writing since antiquity, this simplified italic is written with a broad-edged pen, yielding a pleasing alternation of thick and thin lines, depending on the angle of the stroke. It is also easy to write because it follows the natural movement of the wrist. The writer need only obey the pen to create an even rhythm and beautiful form...
Modern italic can be written with any instrument from a simple crayon to a 24-karat gold fountain pen (if it will write). But it looks best when written with a broad-edged pen. If the nib is crisp and the ink flow and paper are just right, italic writing gives its practitioners an almost sensuous pleasure...