Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush administration. President-elect Bush announced Tuesday that his friend Nicholas Brady will remain as Treasury Secretary. It is also believed that Richard L. Thornburgh, the former Pennsylvania governor now on leave as director of the K-Schoo's Institute of Politics (IOP), will remain the Attorney General...
Proposition 1-2-3 would turn Cambridge into "a city in which you would have to be rich in order to be able to live here," Sullivan says, since it would result in "massive condo conversion" and raise the cost of housing in general...
...Williams lost her seat in the 1983 general election when redistricting made her region "unwinnable" for a Social Democrat, another episode in what she calls a "snakes and ladders" political career. "There was always an element of risk," she says of her two stints in Parliament as a liberal representing marginal to conservative districts...
Looking ahead to the next British general election in 1991 or 1992, Williams says, "Certainly I will go back." Though she has no definite political plans, she says that someone of her seniority would normally qualify for appointment to the House of Lords. But she observes with amusement that since it is the Prime Minister who decides on such appointments, an invitation to join the House of Lords "would take an excess of benevolence" on Thatcher's part...
Perhaps the statement in the article was not intentionally malicious on the part of the authors. In general, I applaud the quality of journalism pursued by Mr. Forman on the Final Club issue this year, and while I am well aware of Mr. Samwick's views, I find them principled and better thought out than most. At the very least there was a carelessness of language unbecoming the quality of journalism I have come to expect form the Crimson. Jack Robbins...