Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hart started the question again. "Why is it," he asked, "that the people of this country understand what is really important, but the politicians and the press do not?" Then he sounded a familiar theme. "The political process in this country is destroying its leadership," he said...
...political leader of vast talents and conspicuous flaws, a man who seems to draw strength from his own humiliation, and a natural loner in a profession that places a premium on warmth. Like Nixon, he is a fascinating touchstone of the times, whose character and psyche are both intensely familiar and strangely unfathomable. The ill-concealed bitterness that the political establishment displays toward Hart is more than merely political and situational; it is rooted in anger at an iconoclast who scorns convention. Mocking the pretensions and smugness of the system is not a new pose for Hart...
...firm's elegant suite of offices, his personal secretary continues to answer the telephone, while a guard hovers near a reception area decorated in gold colors and Far / Eastern art. "Boesky now uses the office as a private club to meet with his lawyers," says a source familiar with the investor's activities. A large renovated farmhouse on Boesky's 200-acre estate in Westchester County, N.Y., is up for sale for $3 million, but his wife Seema still lives in the main house across the road. As heir to a large real estate fortune, she received more than...
...David Burke had been allowed to bypass security screening as a familiar airlines employee...
...roared off into rainy black skies. Speaking from the Oval Office, Reagan called the talks a "clear success," giving cause for "both hope and optimism." But his speech included many declarations of his fundamental opposition to Soviet policies and philosophy. To some extent, Reagan was merely reverting to old familiar themes out of habit. But with an eye to the ratification process, he was also shoring up his right flank against charges by increasingly jumpy conservatives that he has gone soft on the Soviets...