Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Czar represent two very distinct attitudes towards the problem of drugs. The one seeing in it the results of economic violence. The other finding evidence of permissiveness gone awry and the need for a return to law and order. And in the divergence between Ueberroth and Jackson lies the chasm, be it of class, color or principle, which separates most of America today...
Personally, Kennedy has endured gossip preceding his marriage last fall to Stanford Lawyer Robin Hamill, 41. He wed her two months after divorcing his wife of 34 years and the mother of his two children. Professionally, he faces a continuing struggle to close the chasm between Stanford's powerful scientific-technical community and its humanities disciplines. For all his accomplishments, Kennedy is modest about his role at the university: "I can steer it a bit, but I couldn't redirect it if I wanted to." Yet all signs are that the Kennedy touch will keep the tight ship that...
...there were heated exchanges on human rights, the exalted pronouncements uttered in the afterglow were more than mere hyperbole. Something extraordinary was taking place: four decades of often truculent cold-war rhetoric were giving way to dispassionate discourse and high-level rapport. Neither side was forgetting the vast ideological chasm that separates the superpowers, but they were learning to work around their differences, to stake out common ground on which to build a better understanding...
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev are affable television performers who regard themselves as instigators of something approaching a revolution in their nations' domestic policies. Otherwise, they are separated in age, personality and political fortune by a gulf about as wide as the philosophical chasm between the two superpowers. The 76-year-old U.S. President prepares to play host to their third summit meeting next week in Washington, smarting from a long string of setbacks that have raised grave questions about his ability to exercise leadership during the final 14 months of his term. The 56-year-old Soviet General Secretary...
McEwan bridges the chasm between private anguish and public policy with a death-defying story, inventive, eventful and affirmative without being sentimental. Entwined with the Lewises' tragedy is the tale of Stephen's friend Charles Darke, a former editor and, as a junior minister, author of a hard-nosed government manual, The Authorized Child-Care Handbook ("Make it clear to him that the clock cannot be argued with"). His sad fate is that his political ambitions conflict with a longing to chuck it all and live in rural, childlike innocence. Longing wins, and Darke moves to a Suffolk woods where...