Word: elected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President-elect listened to all the unsolicited advice that is being proffered by a small army of think tanks, public-policy experts, ex- bureaucrats and even an assortment of cranks, he would not have much time for anything else. The quadrennial orgy of new -- or warmed-over -- notions for fixing what's broken in the ship of state has reached an all-time high. According to Stephen Hess, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the surge of ideas reached new levels this year because "this is the first time since 1968 that we knew we would definitely have...
Specifically, Bush has promised to increase funding for a variety of programs that serve students from preschool through college, to reward schools that raise test scores and to award cash bonuses to outstanding teachers. Now that the White House is his, TIME will take the President-elect at his word. During the next four years, the magazine will occasionally grade Bush on his progress in addressing one of the nation's most urgent problems...
...often observed -- first about Giorgione, and so on through to the 18th century -- that the pastoral mode was harder to decipher than religious or historical painting. There is not much narrative precision in Watteau's fetes galantes: these little societies of the elect, privileged folk in their shining taffetas are not exactly allegories; they are elaborations of mood, in which every pleat of fabric on a woman's turned back seems to carry its aura of psychological subtlety. And in Giorgione's Tempest, to this day no one really knows what the nude woman, young soldier and lightning flash...
Virtually invisible to radar, the B- 2 is a military landmark. But what does it threaten more -- the Soviet Union or the federal budget? -- A small army of would- be wise men are proffering advice to President- elect George Bush. -- Why Secretary of State George Shultz threw himself into a one- man jihad that kept Yasser Arafat from speaking to the United Nations...
...defense budget 2% above the rise of inflation, but he is unlikely to get that much without a tax increase. Even with such an improbable hike, Bush's numbers would fall more than $140 billion short of what the military wants over the next five years. The President-elect has yet to spell out which military programs he will put on hold. Bush's likely pick for Defense Secretary, former Texas Senator John Tower, would only add to the controversy. An unabashed hawk with strong ties to military contractors, Tower came under fire last week from moderates who think...