Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donald Regan is a clean-desk man, and the new White House Chief of Staff brings the same cool efficiency to management. Largely at his urging, President Reagan last week consolidated his Cabinet councils, merging seven policymaking groups into two Cabinet-level agencies. Treasury Secretary James Baker will head one, advising the President on economic matters, while Attorney General Edwin Meese will be President Reagan's chief Cabinet adviser on domestic questions. Said the President of the change: "It will provide for added accountability and efficiency in formulating and implementing policy...
...Minh City, the authorities have eliminated most of the druggy, decadent excesses, yet the city is still frenetically commercial. At the Cafe Givral, the Rick's Bar of wartime Saigon, a superb French-bread sandwich and cool citron presse are still available. Money changers, prostitutes and all kinds of small-time wheeler-dealers flourish, albeit rather more discreetly than ten years ago. North and South, Coca-Cola is for sale, but the black market stalls of Ho Chi Minh City are packed with foreign goods: Spam and Tang, Zest and Lux, A&W root beer and Del Monte prunes, Remy...
...sure she isn't the woman Stendhal," wrote Edmund Wilson back in 1941, when his young wife began her first book. Some 40 years, 20 volumes and two husbands later, the evidence is in. Mary McCarthy, 72, has her own wise and distinctive voice, but the cool, analytical approach to art, sex and politics inescapably suggests the 19th century Frenchman...
...finally, we report the facts of Harvard's complicity with this system: a cool $565 million invested in companies operating in the apartheid state. While claiming the total divestment would be over reacting, the University paradoxically refuses to invest in companies that do a majority of their business in South Africa, on the grounds that these companies profit from apartheid...
Mubarak, surprised by the cool reception his plan got in Washington, called the U.S. attitude "almost . . . defeatist." He flew off to Jordan for a meeting with Hussein, then headed with the King on a surprise trip to Iraq where he urged President Saddam Hussein to join the peace process. After years of taking a hard-line stand against negotiations with Israel, Iraq appears to be changing its tune. Iraq's President wants his country to be in the mainstream of the Arab world and not to be linked with the likes of Libya and Syria. "In the past," says...