Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TWENTY years ago, Joe McGinnis explained to the nation how our presidents could be sold to us like so much soap. The same soap-peddlers who gave us President Richard Milhouse Nixon have now also given us President-elect George Herbert Walker Bush. They marketed the same product twice, and the nation bought it both times...
When the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party formally merged this January, the new party elected a new leader and a new president. Though Williams could have sought election in the new party, she opted "for something new." She says, "Given the new [leadership]. I thought it would be much easier for them to take over if I wasn't around...
Even the definition of "privacy" can be questioned given the current conditions of the computer field. Would one arrest a curious individual wandering through a supposedly secure building with no locks...
...ultimate satisfaction comes from the occasional student who, given the right nurturing, suddenly blossoms. Barry Smolin twinkles at the very thought of his "victory student." The Fairfax junior had a mother who was a junkie, a sister who was a prostitute and a father who had long ago abandoned the family. "I gave her a writing assignment, and she was brilliant," says Smolin. "She still had trouble, but she got into college and now she wants to be a writer." What keeps many teachers going is the conviction that somewhere out there, there are more victory students waiting...
Stempel, the leading candidate to succeed chairman Roger Smith, could be the man to engineer a turnaround at the lagging automaker. He has already given dealers and employees a much needed morale boost. -- Investors worry about debt as the bidding for RJR- Nabisco intensifies...