Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pages of magazines there is artsy typographical chaos. There are delightfully showboating aluminum office towers (such as Fumihiko Maki's Spiral building in Tokyo) as well as brand-new buildings made entirely of secondhand wood (Atsuo Hoshino's House of Used Lumber, on the outskirts of Tokyo). The familiar and the provocative, the traditional and the radical, the ascetic and the deluxe, the indigenous and the foreign -- all coexist in contemporary Japanese design...
...However familiar such conflicts may seem to millions of working couples, they rarely used to crop up in politics. This year is different. Elizabeth Dole, Hattie Babbitt, Jeanne Simon and Elise du Pont are all lawyers. Jill Biden and Kitty Dukakis both teach. Tipper Gore is a published author. Dole, whom some see as a future presidential contender in her own right, has the most vexing dilemma of all. "I think there is a sense that her choice will send a signal," says Republican Pollster Linda Duvall. "Until now, we've never seen a situation where the wife is just...
Never before have U.S. citizens witnessed so many familiar American landmarks and trademarks passing into foreign hands. Japanese investors last December bought the Exxon headquarters building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center for $610 million, the highest price ever paid for a Manhattan skyscraper. The British, who burned Washington in 1814, have now built or bought an estimated $1 billion in District of Columbia property, including part ownership of the famed Watergate complex. Esteemed U.S. corporate nameplates are also changing citizenship at a rapid clip. Doubleday books has gone to the West Germans, Brooks Brothers clothiers to the Canadians, Smith + & Wesson...
Respondents familiar with each candidate were also asked if they agreed with nine descriptions of that contender, such as "has the experience to be President" and "someone you can trust." Like the other Democrats, Jackson comes up with relatively low marks in categories such as "experience," does well in others ("a strong and decisive leader"), and ends up as a mediocre part of the pack under several headings. These symptoms of ambivalence explain why one-third of possible Democratic voters say they would like to see another candidate in the race. When this group is asked who that candidate should...
Bush has also made progress in the voters' perception of candidates. Last January 81% of Republicans familiar with the candidates agreed that Dole was "someone you can trust," while Bush's rating on that count was 75%. Now those percentages are reversed: 80% of Republicans and leaners call Bush trustworthy, vs. 73% for Dole. In January only half the Republicans would call Bush a "strong and decisive leader," while 81% said that critical description applied to Dole. The Vice President is still not viewed as the most decisive leader the G.O.P. could nominate, but his mark has improved...