Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's commitment to cleaning up the environment. Several signals, including Bush's slow response to the Alaska oil spill and his refusal even to consider an increase in the gasoline tax, have raised concern that he is not the kind of forceful, decisive leader the country needs to deal with the growing environmental crisis...
...these actions were relatively noncontroversial and had no significant impact on the economy. To deal effectively with tougher issues like global warming, Bush will need to push for measures that require sacrifice and stir protest. Almost everyone agrees, for example, that the easiest way to cut carbon-dioxide emissions would be to reduce wasteful consumption of gasoline in the U.S. The Administration is expected to announce soon that by 1991 automakers will be required to raise the average fuel efficiency of their fleets to 27.5 m.p.g., up from 26.5 m.p.g. this year. That is a step in the right direction...
...refuses to grant interviews. His only known hobbies are hunting acquisitions and smoking cigars -- made, naturally, by Consolidated Cigars, a company he used to own. Last year he burst into the headlines by leading a $315 million takeover of five ailing Texas thrifts. The Federal Government sweetened the deal by providing $900 million in tax breaks...
Drawing mattered a great deal to Jones, more, probably, than it had to any English architect before him. He was not content to direct work with rough perspective sketches and leave details to the inherited skills of artisans. He had collected some 250 sheets by his paragon, Palladio. From these he learned the conventions of drawing to a fixed scale, combining them with a fluent pen- and-wash technique to give a truthful, not just impressionistic, account of the future building. One sees his formidable skill as both a technical and a pictorial draftsman growing right through the show. "Altro...
...guilty of human rights abuses, Shevardnadze admits that such problems exist but emphasizes what the Kremlin is doing to improve the situation. To the surprise of American negotiators at the INF talks, the Foreign Minister quickly accepted the principle of verification, then negotiated hard to cut the best deal for Moscow. Says U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Jack Matlock: "Shevardnadze is firm, but if you do not agree on an issue, he moves on. He approaches most things in a nonideological way. He doesn't spend time preaching to the other side...