Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...erratic and irascible revolutionary, convinced of his own genius and wholly committed to spreading his own political gospel, an eccentric mix of Islam and socialism that is summed up in a three-volume work called The Green Book. But it is clear that he also has a broad streak of sanity and shrewdness. "It would be a mistake to underestimate him," says a State Department analyst. "His accomplishments are not inconsiderable, and those accomplishments make him dangerous...
...from earlier pronouncements and warnings. "The abyss" has existed every since the August 1980 strike in Gdansk's Lenin Shipyards; it is the abyss of freedom which has proved far too deep for the Soviet players and their pawns. We can only lament that a genuine labor movement with broad national support and an innovative program has been so blatantly repressed by a state supposedly dedicated to its workers...
...inevitably drew power from federal departments to the White House. Nevertheless, Reagan has tried to foster a sense of team play. In addition to attending frequent Cabinet meetings, most of the Secretaries belong to one or more of five "Cabinet councils" set up to coordinate issues that fall into broad areas. For example, the Secretary of Health and Human Services chairs a council on "human resources, "whose members include the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Agriculture, Labor, Education and Housing and Urban Development...
...prisons. "They are nothing more than crime factories and sodomy schools," says Andrew Vachss, director of the Juvenile Justice Planning Project. Yet the court system itself still reflects a traditional, perhaps outdated, belief in the fundamental innocence of children. The handling of juveniles, says Professor Miller, "is based on broad assumptions about 14-and 15-year-old naivete which in turn is based on 19th century conceptions about youth...
...Walesa, Jaruzelski and Cardinal Glemp hold an unprecedented "domestic summit" in hopes of paving the way for a broad front of national accord to solve the nation's problems...