Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mubarak's accession to the presidency this week fulfills two of Sadat's chief wishes: to see his policies continued, and one day to leave power to a member of Egypt's "October Generation," the men in uniform who helped regain Egyptian self-esteem by their initial victories in the 1973 October War. Sadat had first met Mubarak in the Sinai town of El Arish in 1950; impressed by the young air force officer, the President remembered his name two decades later while searching for a commander for his air force...
...President Bok, it could be a watershed, as he would gather esteem in places where he may not yet be a household word--The Rat, for instance. Students would love him--they could use the "Miscellaneous" stub in their coupon book for admission. And the crowning moment would come when Bok, perhaps dressed in cap-and-gown, stands on the stage and proclaims, in that inimitable stentorian voice: "Ladies and Gentlemen--and distinguished guests--the Rolling Stones...
...seemed that Helms would be a strange, one-term evanescence, he began to attract a following. He was never sniping away just for the citizens of Raleigh and Asheville and Monroe. By his extreme doggedness on one issue or another?busing, feminism, gold, guns, always abortion?he won the esteem of single-minded sects all over the U.S. Says one first-term Senator who understands the effectiveness of that strategy: "Every person in the Senate knows Jesse could unloose that barrage of letters. It makes them think twice...
...that the citizenry begrudges its head of state a bit of a rest. James Thurber said that "it is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all," but Reagan seems to have lost nothing in public esteem by taking time off. In fact such be havior is tacitly expected of him. Not only is a long vacation consistent with his political philosophy of governing best by governing least; it is also part of the modus operandi he established as California's Governor: in by 9, out by 5. If Reagan has mastered...
...newest of the most prestigious grandes écoles and currently the most influential. It was created by De Gaulle after World War II specifically to unite civil servants by providing them with a rigorous, state-supervised education, and to build up the bureaucratic self-esteem that was tarnished during the Nazi years. It accepts only 150 students annually. Almost invariably, graduates of E.N.A. are assured of getting top jobs in the civil service. Indeed, so well did De Gaulle's innovation flourish that technocrats like Giscard, Rocard and onetime French Premier Jacques Chirac were finally able to dominate...