Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undergraduate community elected a leader based on a clear platform, the council might swerve closer to actually representing the student body--which a nominal student government should be doing all along...
...next page you'll find a larger Index, designed to let you know promptly what is in the magazine every week. the new Interview section will probe some of the personalities who influence the course of history and thought. American Ideas will bring you closer to people who are not household names but who do make a difference. Critics' Choice will present a convenient and more complete summary of our reviewers' judgments. the expanded People section is, well, just more fun. in all of this, our aim is to find new ways to offer you more information, more quickly...
...candidates, Dukakis veers closer to being protectionist. He would grant ailing industries temporary relief if they use the breathing space to make necessary adjustments, including investments in plant, equipment and worker retraining. Counters Bush, who bills himself as a defender of free trade: "To some, competitiveness means protectionism and pointing the finger at our trading partners without trying to improve quality and productivity at home. To me, that is not competitiveness. Instead, that is weakness and defeatism." But Reagan has agreed to trade restrictions on everything from motorcycles to semiconductors, and a President Bush would probably be just as pragmatic...
...horse-drawn cab. Degas objected. "Personally, I don't like cabs. You don't see anyone. That's why I love to ride on the omnibus -- you can look at people. We were created to look at one another, weren't we?" No passing remark could take you closer to the heart of 19th century realism: the idea of the artist as an engine for looking, a being whose destiny was to study what Balzac, in a famous phrase that declared its rebellion from the theological order of Dante's Divine Comedy, called La Comedie Humaine...
...Come a little closer, come on, come on, fifth row bleachers--12 bucks, fifth row--12 bucks, let's see your cash...here...