Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determined to do something about substance abuse. There were church vigils and street-corner rallies, marches through dope-infested neighborhoods, and TV spots filmed to urge young people to resist the temptation to experiment with drugs. Showing the Administration's support for drug testing, the President and his Cabinet submitted to urinalysis...
With his incisive mind, infighting skills and intense dedication to a hard- line ideology, Perle, 44, has emerged as the most influential Assistant Cabinet Secretary in 25 years. His pessimistic approach to arms control, along with a swarthy complexion punctuated by the dark circles of his eyes, has earned him the nickname Prince of Darkness. He can be haughty, yet in person he hardly fits the role of dark prince: he has a soft voice, sophisticated Francophile tastes and a willingness to work amiably with bureaucratic colleagues while remaining fiercely loyal to his beliefs...
...federal employees, as some of his aides have urged, the President proposed mandatory urinalysis for federal workers in "sensitive" jobs. White House aides later explained that this meant workers charged with public safety, like air-traffic controllers and national- security and law-enforcement officials. The President's Cabinet has dutifully agreed to undergo drug tests if asked, as have most White House staffers...
...scientist is all too aware of the monster he is turning into: an efficient killer with "no compassion, no compromise." At times he can be wildly ironic, as when he meticulously preserves in his bathroom the teeth, fingernails and ear that have molted, and then jokes that "the medicine cabinet's now the Brundle Museum of Natural History." At other moments he can lurch from irony to insanity to Kafkaesque insight. "I'm an insect who dreamed he was a man, and loved it." "Help me," he tells Veronica. "Help me be human." Alas, she has her own problem...
...very heart of this concern lie our understanding of the heavens and our prowess in putting up satellites to probe and spy and report. Yet since the Challenger disaster, we have dithered like children. After six months of debate on the issue, a Cabinet council split evenly on the question of a new orbiter. Pentagon officials and others have taken to announcing their own proposals, including ideas like building unmanned rockets or having the military take over the shuttle program...