Word: hooverness
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...ranks along with the Grand Coulee and Hoover dams as one of the century's costliest and most complex public works projects. It carries a price tag of $1.3 billion and has been a building for twelve years--so far. It will not be fully operational until the early 1990s, probably at the cost of another $2.3 billion. But when Interior Secretary Donald Hodel and Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt switched on the huge pump of the Hassayampa water plant last Friday, dedicating the mammoth Central Arizona Project, they signaled the opening of a new and possibly contentious era throughout much...
...Soviet leader appeared to Conte to have an impressive familiarity with things American. Gorbachev said that he had studied U.S. law, and he claimed to have read a 600-page Hoover Institute book, adding, "I noticed many ideas that this Administration is taking." He was not impressed, he said, with the men surrounding the President, calling them "narrow-minded" and benefiting "them selves and not the national interest...
...then Senator [Bob] Packwood heard I had these things, and said they ought to be put in the Smithsonian. So I looked, but I decided that they'd wind up behind some stuffed owl. Then Glenn Campbell of the Hoover Institution [of War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University] wanted 'em, so I gave 'em to him. A few months later, I got an appraisal from Sotheby's for a deduction on my income tax. Well, since then I've been fighting the IRS. This Wednesday we're having a hearing. Seems they sent the films to Ray Hackie...
Among names to figure in the case were: Herbert Clark Hoover William Thomas Ortiz Rubio Manning...
...insult only highlights Nossiter's cosmopolitan approach. He finds nuance everywhere, including in his interview with Robert Parker, the redoubtable American wine critic who can make or break a vintage in the newsletter he produces from his Maryland home office, with his flatulent bulldog George and his basset hound Hoover in attendance. Parker says it's hardly his fault that his judgments have become the gold standard for wines across the world; he sees himself - with some justice, as Nossiter acknowledges - as a consumer advocate whose call-'em-as-I-see-'em sensibility broke the stranglehold of befuddled aristocrats...