Word: confidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The pupil has become the teacher, the tentative has become the confident. Or to use another Ailes line, "George Bush has realized he does not have to audition anymore; he's got the job."
Unlike Japan, which succeeds because its strict hierarchical system matches its cultural demands for order, America is at its best when it allows its people to reinvent themselves and create new opportunities, Fallows writes. Disorder makes America great, and great Americans are the ones who aren't constrained by stagnant...
Hoffman carefully modulates his five scenes, using familiar but effective gestures: the shy grin, the hunch of the shoulders, the sudden stare, the deliberate monotonous thud to denote anger. His performance, anything but a star turn, is intelligent, confident and touching. Hoffman brings to mind his ingratiating Willy Loman in...
After tolerating an anything-goes climate in business during most of the 1980s, "people are starting to demand that corporations live up to the expectations that we have of them as citizens," says Alice Tepper Marlin, executive director of the Manhattan-based Council on Economic Priorities. While most Americans still...
"There is a tendency when one is very confident to be verbose," he explains. "It's a matter of discipline." Verbosity is also a dodge for anxious politicians who lack thoughtful things to say. Nonetheless, the Vice President's newly restored confidence seems genuine. It is based, he says, on...