Word: cando
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starting a conference in which studentleaders will speak to each other about what we cando," Romano said. "It is my hope that it turnsinto an annual student retreat...
...system to build a new society--some joined the newly created Peace Corps, while others served in the Justice Department, the State Department and the armed services. The rest stuck with the private sector, from acting to medicine to publishing, but carrying on with the same spirit of channelled cando...
...long time to come, Central America is likely to be testing U.S. patience. Unfortunately, that very quality has been missing in American foreign policy. Impatience is the dark side of a whole cluster of Yankee virtues. Confronted with intractable, ambiguous challenges in other lands, America's cando, problem-solving, troubleshooting instincts twitch in an often misguided quest for the quick fix. Got a problem? Send in a military governor or a proconsul or a special envoy. Still got a problem? Send money. Still got a problem? Send in the Rough Riders, or the Marines. For nearly a century, that...
...black, Thomas had once been proposed by Clark for a position under Enders in Washington, but Enders had opposed him. Thomas, 53, who holds a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Yale and has been a Russian interpreter, is seen by the White House as a nonbureaucratic type of "cando" diplomat...
Ronald Reagan's new beginning was not born, like the New Deal, from chaos or, like the Great Society, from the Texas-size ambition of a man who thought there was no limit to American cando. But Reagan's vision was inspired by a little of each. He saw clear signals of profound economic stress ahead; he also carried in his head, for nearly two decades, the conviction that Government need not be so big and so expensive and he could do something to change it. A calamity loomed. Reagan supplied the religion. His experts wrote the scripture...