Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bailout's credibility is also being hurt by the Government's problems in finding and keeping top talent to lead the rescue, which many potential candidates view as a thankless job. Daniel Kearney, a real estate expert with Wall Street and Washington experience, seemed an ideal choice for chief executive of the Oversight Board. But Kearney quit in February after just four months on the job, citing a lack of authority "essential to be effective in this process." At the same time, the Treasury Department is having trouble replacing M. Danny Wall, the head of the Office of Thrift Supervision...
...think that it's clear that these shows thatmake the doctor totally ideal aren't popularanymore," he says...
...faults of the dining hall system, a debit-card system with no restrictions would not be any better. It would probably weaken the house system, and possibly the health of students. Neither the strict dining hall system nor an unrestricted debit-card system is ideal for Harvard...
...long as people are people, democracy, in the full sense of the word, will always be no more than an ideal. In this sense, you too are merely approaching democracy. But you have one great advantage: you have been approaching democracy uninterruptedly for more than 200 years, and your journey toward the horizon has never been disrupted by a totalitarian system...
Shevardnadze said last week, "I think that the ideal solution would be a neutral Germany. How realistic it is is a question." The answer is, not very realistic at all. A Germany separated from NATO and heavily armed against all comers would be a very large cannon loose on Europe's deck, more worrisome to Moscow than it would be if it were still inside the alliance...