Word: flock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of the Government, Deaver managing the President's personality and Baker dealing with the press and legislation. The true work was much more subtle. Baker softened the ideological edges and was father confessor to the outside world. Meese was the conservative theologian in the chapel, reassuring his flock that he was whispering the true gospel in Reagan's ear. The ubiquitous Deaver negotiated and held the peace between Baker and Meese...
...scheduled for this week, and it is entirely possible that Reagan can round up enough votes to pull out a narrow victory. But that certainly would not end the budget battle. Approval of the general outlines of a spending plan would still leave the details subject to a flock of amendments in the Senate, to say nothing of the antagonistic reception the budget resolution is sure to get in the Democratic-controlled House. Proposals to limit future cost of living increases in Social Security benefits, to abolish 17 federal programs and to increase military outlays 3% above the estimated rate...
...Bishop and his enormous flock were ready to agree when Botha, in a veiled reference to South Africa's political unrest, declared that "the forces of darkness must be kept out of the country." Later in the week some 35,000 blacks in the Eastern Cape region attended a mass funeral for 29 victims of the recent racial violence...
Councilor Alice Wolf, a cosponsor of the resolution, disagreed that refugees would flock to Cambridge. "Limits on housing prevent them from moving, people tend to go where their family and friends are" and not to a particular community, she said...
...They are not, to belabor the point, attempting to fulfill elusive distribution requirements. What the University should find exciting about this interest is that it's an example of what every liberal arts education is supposed to contain and so sporadically does: study for study's sake. Those who flock to hear Jardine and Johnson, Suleiman and Phinney know that lit crit is a combination, in its broadest description, of such disparate disciplines as linguistics, philosophy, and traditional literary analysis. And they want to study it because it's interesting and important. It's move than a shame that there...