Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miscarriage. Further adventures set down by Smiley, author of A Thousand Acres, include an unwelcome marriage proposal from a doddering plantation owner and a threatened death sentence for stealing a slave. Lidie prevails and returns to Illinois, having, like the beguiled reader, seen an astonishing array of clamor and calamity...
...most powerful gatekeeper. That distinction goes to Nancy Hernreich, the director of Oval Office operations, who has been with Clinton since Arkansas. Hernreich, who recommended Currie for the secretarial job, is the President's scheduler and, with Currie, makes up the last line of defense against those who clamor for Clinton's time. They have a good-cop-bad-cop routine in which Hernreich shuts down access to Clinton while Currie smooths ruffled feathers with a kindly "We'll get back to you, dear." And the lower down you are on the food chain, her colleagues say, the nicer...
Implausible as it may seem amid the clamor of scandal, President Clinton this week managed to launch a mechanism for restoring the Mideast peace process. The key to Clinton?s proposal to break the deadlock is breaking up the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Palestinian security measures into a series of reciprocal phases. That would delay final status negotiations until both sides? compliance with their undertakings restores a measure of mutual trust, says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer...
...rescuers to surmount the language and cultural barriers that separate them. In our own age, with democracy travestied by ethnic- and interest-group politicking, the most instructive thing about Amistad may lie in its demonstration that broad principle, shrewdly advanced, can find ways to assert itself amid factional clamor...
...misses the point, for it is the top-down nature of the Asian model itself that is the real cause of the crisis. This model bred complacency, cronyism and corruption. Isolated from public opinion, just as they insulated bankers and businessmen from market forces, the technocrats ignored the deafening clamor of alarm bells that market forces have been ringing for years. Worse still, because there was no public scrutiny of the iron triangle of bureaucrats, businessmen and bankers, the natural coziness that developed in that clique led inevitably to decisions based on personal relations. At best this was inefficient...