Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular, all youth is mad about appearance. For some, it is the designer labels, for others, a flashy neoprimitivism, and of course, the punk hair and fashion styles (somewhat muted) have diffused to become fixtures of a generation whose members feel compelled to make "statements" with green hair, polo players, crystals, and motorcycle boots, even unto the "artful" ripping of jeans--a message that bespeaks both bodily obsession and an obscene consumerism...
...Defeating inflation is generally regarded as the crown of your public career. How did you feel taking over the Fed in 1979, facing terrible economic problems...
...much as the second term progressed. ((Chief of staff)) Don Regan kept saying, "You've got to see him much more frequently. I'll arrange it." But he never did. When I saw him, it was probably as often as not at my initiative. But I didn't feel very comfortable about that. The President was really quite supportive, particularly given the pressures that he was under from his own people. He had some basic instinct that he didn't like inflation, which was a great help to us. He wasn't necessarily enthusiastic in his support, but he wasn...
...talking about the pay hike favor it, as do students of government who contend that too many of the most talented men and women pick private industry over public service because of the siren song of much higher pay. But for many Americans "out there" who already feel that life inside the Washington Beltway is a world vastly different from their own, the prospect of such big raises right at budget-cutting time is cause for concern, derision, even anger. At their current salary of $89,500 a year, Congressmen already make more than most American wage earners...
...Camarillo, chairman of a Stanford University committee on minority concerns. "They have heard people ask if we have done too much for minorities." Others blame the Reagan Administration's lax enforcement of civil rights laws for making prejudice socially acceptable. "The Reagan years provided a context that made people feel more comfortable expressing intolerance," says John S. Wilson, assistant director of corporate development at M.I.T...