Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reality is obviously insufficient. The hard part is getting from here to there. "And that is why Baker is so well suited to the era," % says Pete Peterson, an investment banker who served as Richard Nixon's Secretary of Commerce. "Jim plays the cards he's been dealt as well as anyone. In the '90s his hand will consist of very different cards from those of his predecessors...
...think he first knew for sure that he could handle the job when he was at Treasury," says Jamie Baker. "Before that, he had very successfully dealt with all manner of politicians at home. Then he prevailed in a complex negotiation with some very savvy foreigners in a field he knew not too much about. To relate it to basketball, I think that's when Dad, in his own mind, realized for certain that he could play above...
...ending a long period in which the Chinese were regarded as dangerously destabilizing. Second, America's strategic position, widely assumed to be imperiled by the disastrous ending of its involvement in the Viet Nam War, was unexpectedly enhanced. Finally, the new relationship between China, the United States and Japan dealt a diplomatic setback to the Soviet Union throughout the region...
...American Indians at Harvard (AIH) held a conference which dealt with how American Indians perceive each other and their cultural identities...
...with Salvador Dali, who when he died last week at 84 was perhaps the archetype of that 20th century phenomenon, the Embarrassing Genius. He was the first modern artist to exploit fully the mechanism of publicity. He appropriated the idea of the artist as demonic obsessive. He dealt with the question Why should your fantasies matter? by insisting that he was such an extraterrestrial creature, so tuned to the zeitgeist through the trembling antennas of his waxed mustache, that he could not be ignored. Armored in paradox, he was a household word rivaling Picasso in fame, at least...