Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been said in many quarters that the prospect of four more years of Reagan is reason enough to vote for Mondale, and we find it difficult to argue with this proposition. Four more years of uninterrupted failure both at home and abroad. On the many issues that confront a President, from the economy and civil rights to arms control and foreign diplomacy, the stakes are too high to countenance waiting until 1988 to reverse Reagan's disastrous slide...
Reagan continues to show little intellectual curiosity about the great dilemmas he must confront. He rarely seeks to convene experts in the Oval Office to toss around ideas on thorny subjects like the Middle East or arms control. Instead, he prefers to follow the consensus recommendation of his staff. If his advisers are capable-and most are-Reagan can afford to trust their judgment. But his staff is not elected, and some, most notably White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker, may not stay on through a second term. In sum, the issue Americans should debate is not Reagan...
...CEOs applauded politely, but not all were convinced that the deficit could be trimmed without tax hikes. "I don't see sufficient growth in the cards," warned Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell. Still, council members were generally confident that whoever wins next month's presidential election will confront the budget problem headon. Said Hawley: "My sense is that it's not a partisan issue and will be tackled by whoever gets elected...
Panelist Regula Herzog, a research scientist at the institute of Gerontology and institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, addressed the problems again women confront. She said that menopause is "an over studied and overemphasized issue because people have historically linked menopause to witchcraft. Herzog explained that there are many more aspects of a woman's aging than hormonal changes...
Reagan will not confront Gromyko. The President is tough in policy, in speeches, on paper. Eyeball to eyeball he softens, not hardens. He listens, smiles, talks softly, encouragingly. What will Gromyko hear? How will he size up the leader of the free world? We still wonder whether Nikita Khrushchev's assessment of John Kennedy launched the Cuban missile crisis and whether Leonid Brezhnev's contempt for Jimmy Carter encouraged the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...