Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his political affiliation still unknown, both parties are salivating over the prospect of the general gracing their ticket. And in many ways he is the ideal candidate. He is a true American success story, he has strong credentials on race issues, and he is one of the most popular military leaders since Dwight Eisenhower. While his domestic views are an unknown quantity, rumor has it that he is progressive at heart...
...sort of twiddling our thumbs," says McMahon. "To do experiments when you have to commute five miles each way is not the ideal situation...
...rule strictly by Shari'a, the Islamic legal code. Violent Islamists usually pursue both a political and a social agenda in the name of the faith. While no state in the world is governed purely by Shari'a -- even Iran, Sudan and Saudi Arabia, which come closest to the ideal, compromise in some ways with the modern world -- Islamists focus their ferocity on the Muslim states such as Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia, which have tried to modernize and mix in elements of nationalism and Western-style democracy...
...Taiwan, are worried their only son will never marry, and as a result constantly suggest suitable young women for Wai-Tung. They even go so far as to enroll Wai-Tung in a dating service in Taiwan. Wai-Tung, in an effort to end his parents' badgering, describes his ideal woman as 5'9", a double Ph.D, an opera singer and fluent in five languages. Even this did not stop his parents, who found an almost perfect match, (she only had one Ph.D) and flew her immediately to New York...
Though the divisions among its opponents give the Administration a great selling opportunity, the complexity of its plan makes it less than ideal to explain to a skeptical public. Undaunted, the White House is kicking off an all-out campaign stressing broad themes: universal coverage and portability / and security of coverage -- or, in bumper-sticker language, HEALTH CARE THAT'S ALWAYS THERE. Clinton last week was host to a Rose Garden ceremony, filmed for local TV stations, at which people who had written letters to the White House detailing their health-care troubles read their horror stories aloud...