Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like any group of strong-willed executives, they have their policy disagreements, and in some cases personal rivalries and tensions as well. But they are united by their unswerving loyalty to their chief, which he fully reciprocates. That quality is captured by the name the President's team chose for itself while his first Administration was still being formed. Then and now, his most powerful advisers have been proud to call themselves the Reaganauts. Here they...
...five-term California Democratic Congressman Jerry Patterson lost his bid for re-election last November, he reviewed his options: find a Government job, return to law practice or start a new career. "Be a snow-plow operator in Tahoe," jokes Patterson, "or something like that." In the end, Patterson chose Washington. An influential former member of the House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee, he became a Washington-based attorney and lobbyist for a California law firm, at about double the annual $75,100 congressional salary...
...when the Cadets backed out in August, it left a hole in the Harvard schedule and a lack of replacements to chose from...
Joffe and Davidson chose to cut between Pran's privations and Schanberg's searching's, contrasting the objective desperation of Pran's position with the psychological desperation of Schanberg's guilt. But since Pran was not allowed to talk and independent thought was considered a crime, Joffe uses voice overs, mental "Dear Sidney" letters to expose the action and Pran's reaction. The technique backfires, and they might have been better off leaving off the whole section in Cambodian. A more intelligent solution would have been to use subtitles, letting the vicious regimentation of the Khmer Rouge speak for itself...
...presidential campaign. Always the pragmatist, Baker had Bush pull out of the race just before the California primary to keep alive a shot at the vice-presidential spot. When Bush got the call, Baker became a key strategist for the Reagan campaign. On the recommendations of trusted advisers, Reagan chose the newcomer as his White House chief of staff...