Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Launching onto an attack of the economic policies of the Reagan Administration. Trudeau's hatangue ran the gamut from quips about the integrity of Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan to Administration efforts to out back on school lunch programs...
...decades, the cost to taxpayers for what Chiles dubs "the imperial former presidency" has quietly spiraled from $64,000 to $27 million this fiscal year. The Federal Government picks up the tab for pensions, offices, staffs, round-the-clock Secret Service protection, maintenance for lavish presidential libraries and a gamut of other expenses ranging from car washes to cable-TV rentals to joke writers' fees. All this, Chiles points out, even though Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon are already millionaires from lucrative memoirs, speaking engagements and television deals. Says Chiles: "We seem to have allowed these people...
...unveiling partly through his language, which, though elegant and fragile, is not as colorful or as powerful as that in The White Hotel. Equally important are the characterizations. In The White Hotel, Lisa Erdman and Freud were a haunting, even inspiring pair, but Surkov, Rozanov and Finn run the gamut from merely distasteful to completely horrifying...
James Kunen, a long-time friend who delivered one of two eulogies at the memorial service, recalled Short's passion for life: "He was always completely into whatever he was doing." Short's interests run the gamut from softball to the radical politics of the 1980s...
...same time, he wanted to preserve a P.L.O. position ambiguous enough to satisfy the hard-liners who oppose the Reagan plan or any other concessions to reach a real peace in the Middle East. The danger was that the P.L.O., a loose coalition of eight groups that run the gamut from Arafat's own moderate Fatah organization to the hardline Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine led by George Habash, would emerge from Algiers even more divided than it already is. To guard against any real threat to his leadership, Arafat made sure that thousands of Fatah...