Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amazement was tinged with apprehension too. Not, to be sure, because of any misgivings about the ability of the man that Reagan chose as Haig's replacement. As Secretary of the Treasury and economic-policy coordinator in the Nixon Administration, George Pratt Shultz, 61, earned a reputation as a team player who could win cooperation from officials with strongly divergent views; he might be able to avoid the bureaucratic battles that gave Haig so much trouble in bringing "consistency, clarity and steadiness of purpose" to American foreign policy. Though Shultz has no formal diplomatic background, his negotiations with foreign...
...insane? In federal cases, the prosecution must prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the defendant was legally sane at the time of the crime. In many states, the defense must show, usually by a "preponderance" of evidence, that a suspect was insane in order to win acquittal. Judge Parker chose to use the stricter guidelines in order to avoid giving the defense technical grounds for appeal. This put the burden of proof on the prosecution. A person is defined as insane, he instructed, if he, "as a result of mental disease or defect, either lacked substantial capacity to conform...
...right talons, a cluster of 13 arrows (for the original states) in its left. Americans were not the first to adopt eagles as symbols of independence, courage and power: European cave men decorated their walls with drawings of eagles, and rulers from the Roman Caesars to Napoleon chose the bird as their emblem. But no people took to eagles like the Americans to Old Baldie, which has adorned everything from 19th century $20 gold pieces and 20th century quarters to brass door knockers and even mass-produced "colonial-style" paper-towel dispensers. American craftsmen have featured the proud bird...
...nation's move. Other analogies are more certain. Both the British and the Israelis applied short-term solutions to long-range problems. Both could have avoided armed conflict through negotiations (though this would have been harder for the Israelis), but either because of carelessness, stubbornness, arrogance or suspicion, each chose not to. Both told their allies that what they were doing was good not only for themselves but for the world as well. Both saw themselves functioning as liberators. Both were responding to hostilities; in the case of Britain, to a single overt act; in the case of Israel...
...industrial-engineering major, planned his assault on the work force by interrupting his schooling to work six months with AT&T. Now he has a number of unsolicited job offers. His only regret: not having enough time to study history or political science, two reasons why he chose Berkeley. Says Ferran: "Engineering is something I'm good at and something practical. I'm not particularly fascinated by the field, but you've got to be more pragmatic than in the past...