Word: headedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presidents have still managed to push many wide-ranging programs through Congress. But the regular spectacle of legislative deadlock has given life to a venerable critique of American Government that favors some of the mechanisms and party discipline of parliamentary rule. Under such a system, the winning party's leader...
The White House decision may be preceded by a short, sharp battle between Administration right-wingers led by Meese and moderates headed by Baker. The Meese faction wants to cement conservative control of the Supreme Court; Baker's group wants to choose a nonconfrontational conservative who would arouse less than...
The novel's highly charged atmosphere turns these scrap items into relics. Blind Cahill literally feels his way to the truth about his son. Joel's former instructor breaks regulations and takes him for a dangerous spin that conveys the elemental and unnatural sensation of flight. Cahill also discovers that...
Helms could not visit the Soviet Union until now. He began his intelligence career with the OSS in 1943 and headed the CIA from 1966 to 1973. For 30 years he was the one who ran the spies. The unwritten but iron rule of the CIA was that no man...
Congress will not, however, allow confusion to deter. Instead, it is trying to legislate its confusion with a series of stalling actions. First the Senate, then the House voted to block Administration plans to put Kuwaiti tankers under U.S. Navy protection unless they got a report from the President on...