Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million" in two Hungarian publications and is making a profit, he will pursue print ventures only if he can find partners. "Nothing on our own," he vows. "You don't get in in a big way, because there is no money there and the situation is totally competitive." The ideal newspaper investment, he says, is "the security of a monopoly." He has the same goal in television. Having attained it after a fashion in Britain, he may yet prove that the Sky is the limit...
...Bush the ideal President to articulate such an ambiguous policy. It's hard to tell when he's being clever and when he's plain inarticulate. Bush, says one White House aide, "figures people should leave him alone to do what he decides is best. His attitude is 'This is very complicated. You just wouldn't understand.' " An Administration official adds that whether the White House on any given day stresses its hopes for peace or its willingness to fight sometimes "has been determined by the President's mood or the questions he gets...
...would like to express my interest in the position of Harvard President which you advertised in the Times. I believe Harvard would be an ideal place for me to consider some of the deeper questions. For instance, is there a higher being in the universe? And, if so, is he the type who knows about cheeses and buys sports coats off the rack...
John J. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is an almost too perfect example of the new American male, that improbable beau ideal who has been created out of recent feminist fantasies and the failure of certain old-fashioned masculine dreams...
...Janeiro are mobilizing to bring public pressure on the justice system. Earlier this year, a Belo Horizonte man was sentenced to 19 years for killing his wife. "Things have got better," says Sandra Lima of the Confederation of Brazilian Women, "but they are still far from ideal...