Word: imprint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anger into Elizabeth's kingdom." Her cousin is, in fact, a preternaturally good child, so Ruth cultivates meanness and petty thievery with gusto. She hides Elizabeth's favorite dolls and into adulthood wears her clothes on the sly. Elizabeth paints (skies only); Ruth toys with starting a publishing imprint (her first book would be a reissue of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary...
While the public relations effort to mold Hillary into a traditional my- heart-belongs-to-hubby First Lady means that campaign insiders are reluctant to publicly acknowledge her substantive role, her imprint on the staff shake-up seems clear. With Hillary as the principal guardian of the candidate's body and mind, it is telling that just before the convention she propelled the couple's longtime friend Susan Thomases -- a sometimes confrontational New York City lawyer -- into the powerful slot of head scheduler. In that role Thomases serves Hillary's agenda to make sure Clinton's tendency to please everyone...
...away from the nearest village and the temptations of < palm wine, the Pygmies begin to come into their own. Even with 14 years' experience, Fay can still lose a trail, but Ndokanda, a former elephant hunter, or any of the other Pygmies can read the very faintest imprint with a glance. In the forest they are utterly self-reliant, creating cord from vines, cups from leaves and bed mats from bark. Still, they are apprehensive about this forest, and when Fay tells them where we are going, Samory says, "Mokele Mbembe lives there." Fay is convinced that the Pygmies...
...Graham Allison was extremely intelligent and visible. Putnam was put her too brief a time [two years] to leave a specific imprint...[but] he was very concerned about academic standards," says Marvin Kalb, Murrow professor of press and public policy...
...came to be more than three years ago that Lujan was made steward of the nation's natural treasures, overseeing some 440 million acres of precious wilderness, wetlands, parks and open expanses -- one-quarter of the U.S. landmass. By action and inaction, he has already left his imprint upon the American landscape while remaining largely unknown to the public -- a kind of Stealth Secretary. In speeches, Lujan has appealed for "balance" -- his favorite word -- between environmentalism and economic development. "I am not going to let anyone rape the earth," he insists. But in actuality, his policies distinctly tilt toward industry...