Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried to float the idea of giving the President authority to impound funds appropriated by Congress. That would undercut the Budget Act of 1974, which was passed after President Nixon repeatedly used impoundment to control the flow of federal spending in defiance of congressional wishes. Not surprisingly, Democrats were cool to the idea, saying that the proposal was just a copout for the Republicans...
...sequences are blandly Middle American-Evans calls them "white bready." But there is plenty of funk in Rocker Ted Nugent. His hair hangs in crimped strands halfway down his bare, sweaty chest, and he talks in a singsong urban-punk cadence about how to stay straight while being more cool than the druggies. When he sings, the mild jingle becomes a heavy-rhythm wail...
Indeed, though, she is known for occasional fits of moodiness. Lord commands the respect and affection of many of Harvard's finest minds. "To the people who work for her and with her, her vitality, generosity, and warmth in this cool culture are all the more welcome." David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, says. Relaxing in the Faculty Club dining room, she must interrupt herself regularly to greet friends, and one scholar unabashedly gives her a big hug and kiss. "She knows the place, gets around a lot, and reports the news very straight every time." President...
...pickax on the feet of his boss on a youthful summer construction job; a wry translation of status quo as "Latin for 'the mess we're in' "; a visionary proclamation of "an American Renaissance" of high employment and low inflation. But the audience was as cool as any Reagan has played to as President. It gave him about the minimum of tepid applause required by politeness and respect to his office...
...Care of Time, as in Ambler's 17 other novels, it is finally not so much the plot that grips the attention, superbly handled though it is, but the characters, all of them human and vulnerable: the flawed journalist, the fearful broker, his not quite ice-cool daughter, the sick sheik, even the attendant thugs, brass hats, cops and spies. No one except perhaps Graham Greene knows or describes his atmosphere or terrain as meticulously as Ambler. It encompasses the topography of fear. -By Michael Demarest