Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...domestic matters, however, Bush relies on a highly structured decision- making process that even has a name. Known to government-school types as multiple advocacy, it is designed to refine options and allow the President to hear his top advisers argue them out. Bush's chief domestic policy adviser, Roger Porter, wrote a book extolling the virtues of the system after watching it work in the Ford Administration. Though multiple advocacy is time consuming and difficult to manage, Bush has peopled his Cabinet with the sort of collegial generalists necessary for success. The President apparently sees little irony...
...Chicago commodity traders indicted for cheating the public . . . Leona Helmsley facing 20 years in a Holiday Inn (the logical sentence) if convicted of tax fraud -- it's hard not to be interested in these cases, but equally hard to have any impact on their outcome. How refreshing, then, to hear of a case, however small, in which one of us -- specifically, my pal Joey -- gets to be judge and jury. This is the story of Joey's revenge. It could save you a few bucks, or perhaps even earn you a first-class upgrade...
THERE is something about Allegra Goodman's collection of short stories, Total Immersion that reminds me of my grandmother. When my grandmother, who is from the South, tells a story, you hear about the person's relatives and the relatives' relatives, and their relatives...
...intellectual striptease. It's also about the West's fear of how its relationship with the East is changing. Sophisticated American whites realize their group is in the process of changing from an outright majority to just a plurality in the U.S., and are beginning to be ready to hear what the rest of us think...
...specialized in loans to Asian immigrants and which now has four branches in California. Two years after the bank opened, he was kidnaped for ransom, then released within a few hours after the money was taken. Says the son: "I was in college at the time and did not hear about it until the crisis was over. The case was never solved, and some people have suggested that my father staged the episode as a publicity stunt. My father may be a little weird, but he's not a criminal." More recently, the bank has been at the center...