Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The debate over what to do about Noriega has at times pitted U.S. officials against one another. Last October the State Department asked Von Raab to meet with some visiting Panamanian officials and present them with gift-wrapped parcels. The Customs commissioner, who has long believed Panama to be a...
At least one cult figure still retains a devoted following in China these days: Mickey Mouse. The perky Disney character pops up on Chinese garment and toy logos, on billboards and in newspaper ads. Mickey's smiling features are, in fact, one of the most ubiquitous Western images in the...
In a political climate in which most candidates are searching their souls for a persona that voters can trust, du Pont stands apart. He considers the obsession with "character" and the media's ceaseless quest for revealing personal anecdotes slightly silly. To his closest aides, du Pont's unapologetic approach...
What is this Stakhanovite society? No, not Japan, for all its renown as the exemplar of dedicated labor. South Korea? Taiwan? West Germany? No, again. Every one of the trends cited is occurring in the U.S. -- the very country Richard Nixon once said was being overtaken by a "new welfare...
As with other boot-camp graduates, many doctors feel, If I went through it, so can you. Some of the resistance to changing medical residencies reflects this macho sentiment. Established physicians remember their years of training as dramatic and character building. The fact is, however, that the typical experience of...