Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classic Jiang moment--casual, charming, energizing. He is, after all, a man who can recite from memory sections of the Gettysburg Address--in English. His training as an engineer has given him a reverence for technology and a fluency with the idea of an information economy that make him an ideal leader for a Net-ready nation. And his instincts have always been behind Zhu's economic-reform program, despite opposition from conservative heavyweights in the party. Even today he relies on the advice of his American-educated son Jiang Mianheng...
...will be a pretty casual affair," said Erika Vizes of the Charles Hotel...
...favorite Amen. Some scholars believe Akhenaten's monotheism, a historic first, inspired the Hebrew prophets, but it had the more immediate effect of freeing Egypt's artists. They could now portray the Pharaoh and the voluptuous Nefertiti (who may have shared the throne with him) in a far more casual, realistic way. Akhenaten's cone-shaped head, elongated face, fingers and toes, pot belly and flaring hips have led some scholars to suggest that he had hydrocephalus or Marfan's syndrome...
Gore's delicate and tense relationship with his own father, Segal has said, was palpable enough that even his casual friends noticed...
...fall of 1965, he ran for a first-year seat on the Undergraduate Council. Dressed in semi-casual clothes, Gore canvassed the dorms of the Old Yard, knocking on doors and introducing himself. Gore won the election...