Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...workaholic, Sadat slept eight hours a night, rarely awoke before 9 a.m. and insisted on a three-hour nap each afternoon. He avoided paperwork, preferring to deal with the broad picture and leave the details to his subordinates. He was so averse to reading official documents that when Cyrus Vance brought him Jimmy Carter's invitation to Camp David, Sadat asked Vance to read it to him aloud...
...board composed of alumni, representatives of the Varsity Club, women's team coaches, and team members will be selected. She added, "The by-laws and the constitution are already written, and guidelines for allocations have been set. I can't make any predictions; we just hope to build a broad base of people interested in supporting women's athletics...
...story began last spring, when the Administration reversed the usual order of fiscal confrontations and turned to the budget committees before the appropriations panels could begin allocating money. Reagan put all of his political capital behind the broad goal of reduced spending and pushed the details--bloated weapons systems towering over crippled social programs--as far out of the spotlight as possible. The ploy worked; an overall spending ceiling was set with a so-called "reconciliation" budget package, and startled appropriations czars were told not to exceed the general limit in their 13 specific areas. Combining this victory with...
...Reagan Administration, though, was not apologizing last week for its economic policies. In fact, it was preaching its free-market program to the less developed countries. Said President Reagan to the 11,000 central bankers and financiers: "The societies that have achieved the most spectacular, broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled nor necessarily the biggest in size nor the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace...
...manic mash notes. Bewildered, Reinhart observes, "Women in general had grown assertive, had their own magazines displaying naked men and relating filthy fantasies, took out loans from banks, tried murderers, and performed brain surgery. For ever so long now it would have been simple bad taste to buy a broad a rum-and-Coke, kid her along for a moment or two, and then expect to pry her legs apart immediately thereafter in the back seat of a gas-guzzler...