Word: broads
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...amount to what some might call a "weakness." The list includes physics, mathematics and literature. "To this day, I remember by heart poetry I learned at school," he bragged. Gorbachev left no doubt that he prefers the company of generalists rather than specialists. Said he: "People with a broad outline are more to my liking." He also had a few words to say about opposition by Soviet bureaucrats to his reforms. Despite the efforts of officialdom's "encrusted layers," Gorbachev insisted, "the reorganization is proceeding in depth...
Even with this disparate and broad approach, Afro-American Studies has yet to gain popularity among the student body, because many students call it unpractical. Therefore, students decide to double-major. Says Dawkins, "It is hard to legitimate Afro-Am studies to the outside world--to both Blacks and whites...
...fallen Reagan Administration officials fit into some broad categories. There are the Foxes in the Chicken Coop: those appointed to enforce regulations they chafed under while in the private sector and who, once in office, seemed eager to undermine them. There are the Public-Service Privateers: appointees from the business world who carried their Wall Street ethos into the public sector. The True Believers: officials whose loyalty and ambition overcame their judgment and principles. And People with a Past: officials undone by acts committed before entering government...
Although he had seen no one, Connaughton sensed they had been watched entering and leaving his apartment building. He had not seen, in the entryway four doors up the street, the slight man in the dark blue coat and the broad- brimmed...
Simmons (Powdered Eggs, Wrinkles) uses the broad strokes of Restoration comedy to distance the new book from his former employer. Surnames of staff members on the influential weekly Belles Lettres derive from the nomenclature of publishing and typography. Among the arcana: Jonathan Margin, Virginia Wrappers, Claire Tippin, Lou Bodoni, Xavier Deckle, Ellie Bellyband and Sylvia Topstain...