Word: helded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illusions about the distance between liberal hope and the possibility of its fulfillment. But even though present-day Republicans and their flacks have corrupted the American air with babblings about the L word, as though liberalism were something to be ashamed of, Goya's beliefs, so passionately held, still testify to the liberal conscience as the best hope of Western man in the past 200 years...
...title suggests a position of great influence: chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. In the past few Administrations, however, those who held the post tended to wind up as voices in the wilderness rather than confidants in the Oval Office. But George Bush's choice for the post, Stanford University Professor Michael Boskin, 43, is a trusted adviser and an open- minded scholar who could help restore genuine authority to the job. Says Robert Litan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution: "For the first time in recent memory, the incoming chairman is someone who was deeply...
Bush promises to be different. Although he adopted the Reagan method during the campaign, stage-managing his every appearance and sequestering himself from the press, he held more news conferences in the ten weeks following the election than Reagan did in his last two years in office. "I think you will see him act as President very much as he has been in the last few weeks," says White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater...
...intersections," he says. "I couldn't handle any kind of stress. I'd just blow. You can walk in my parents' house today and see the signs -- holes in doors I stuck my fist through, indentations in walls I kicked." Chamberlain grew so despondent, he recalls, that he "held a gun to my head once or twice." Others have succeeded in committing suicide. Warns Aaron Henry, 22, a St. Charles, Mo., drug counselor whose adolescent dependence on steroids drove him close to physical and mental ruin: "When you put big egos and big dreams together with steroids, that...
...President looked up, some of that gentle mirth tugging at his mouth even in this melancholy pause on his way out of power. "Who do I give this to?" he asked quietly. He held up his authentication card for the launching of nuclear missiles, the card that must be inserted into the "football" toted with tender care by an ever present military assistant to certify the command to strike at an enemy. Reagan had dutifully carried the card for eight years. Its unimportance at his parting was perhaps the most powerful statement of this singular leader's legacy. The world...