Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coordination on the part of the industrial democracies will necessitate more long-term planning. At last year's Versailles summit, Mitterrand made an eloquent plea for loosely planned economics emphasizing high technology--in essence, the Japanese model. The French president claimed that the Third World could serve as an ideal market for the new industries, which would further development as well. Hence the West and the developing world could find a common solution to their fundamentally different problems. Mitterrand's call went unnoticed, yet it has become all the more urgent with the passage of time...
...decade a growing disillusionment with the effectiveness of these programs took the place of the ideal that throwing money at a problem could make a difference...
...country interested in establishing a public policy program similar to the K-School's, the Mason program has served as an ideal way to test the water. When a K-School delegation took its fellows on a field trip to Egypt this spring, faculty at the American University of Cairo unexpectedly asked Academic Dean Albert Carnesale for help in setting up a public policy curriculum. This fall, one of those professors will enroll at the K-School as a Mason fellow, Pyle said, adding. "This man's presence in the Mason fellow program will be the take off point...
Even Adams's description of the propionate character of Harvard['s intellectual ideal seems certainly appropriate for 1954-58, it may have been it led some in later decades to courtier the "apathetic...
...elite? One favorite is Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, knowledgeable, funny and fast on his feet. Of the Cabinet, Brinkley singles out Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. Among foreign leaders, Brinkley and Kalb prize West Germany's ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. "He's the TV era's ideal West German Chancellor," says Kalb, since Schmidt speaks English well and can be "irritable and irritating." Kalb also finds Menachem Begin fascinating because "he says what he feels." Interesting historical question: Would the Middle East have been different, at least in American eyes, had Yasser Arafat been as personally appealing...