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Word: good (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successful public man who gets entangled in a sex scandal. Given Wilson's production rate, it is unlikely that readers will have to wait long to find out. Incline Our Hearts is the first novel of a proposed trilogy. If the next two are as good as the first, readers will have a small classic on their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Triumph of Trying-Really-Hard | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...this opportunity to go out and do it in the interest of entrepreneurship and a bright new financial world. But I think we've lost a little sense of balance. Hey, look at the Pentagon, which spends $300 billion a year. Are they doing a good job? And they're up against all these very sophisticated, aggressive business people. Are the people making those decisions getting the best professional advice? Why do we seem to make so many mistakes on procurement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Advice From Mr. Chairman Paul Volcker, Who Helped Whip Inflation As | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...didn't have much contact. I mean, we had increasingly less as the years passed. I don't think it was a very good idea, but I didn't see much to do about it. I never considered our give-and-take terribly productive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Advice From Mr. Chairman Paul Volcker, Who Helped Whip Inflation As | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...Frankly, I am not very good at planning things way in advance, of doing great studies about what should be done over a period of time, because it all seems very abstract. And I find it very easy to be lazy unless something compelling comes along and says, look, goddammit, you've got to act. And it's on your desk and that's it. Then the adrenaline begins running. You're sitting there in the Federal Reserve where you're supposed to do things that aren't all that popular. And to the extent that you have an aura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Advice From Mr. Chairman Paul Volcker, Who Helped Whip Inflation As | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...campus bigotry on the fact that today's students are largely ignorant about past struggles for racial, sexual and economic equality. "We failed to help our children learn the lessons we learned," says Mary Maples Dunn, president of Smith College in Northampton, Mass. "We thought we'd done good things in the 1960s, but we rested on our laurels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bigots in The Ivory Tower | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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