Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...literary editor of London's weekly Spectator and biographer of the humorist and Roman Catholic apologist Hilaire Belloc, is a lightning plotter. The action, however, is never as arresting as those who initiate it. The smitten Hughie is a striking example of what the author calls "an overdeveloped inner life." Bernadette is a stinging portrait of stupidity (a pimp recruits her with veiled threats, and she mistakes him for a social worker). Blore is an overbearing ass who makes a big production about serving a modest Spanish wine and talks of W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon...
...Israeli settlements in the West Bank. New settlements can be established only if there is a majority in the Cabinet in favor. We have an inner Cabinet equally divided between the two parties: five from Labor [which opposes new settlements], five from Likud. I do not believe that the Labor members of the Cabinet will depart from their convictions...
...Army, Air Force and Coast Guard had offered the use of vacant defense facilities to more than 600 communities. But many military bases were too remote for the inner-city homeless. One base commander would not permit food at a shelter; others would not let the poor walk beyond the buildings' grounds. As a result, there were only two takers for the funds, Philadelphia and California's Alameda County. Total amount: $900,000. In August, Defense Department officials realized that the remaining $7.1 million would be lost if it was not spent soon. A House committee went along...
...similar rift has long prevailed within the inner councils of the Reagan Administration. The Administration's supply-siders, led by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, have consistently urged the President to oppose income tax hikes. Another faction, known as the "pragmatists" and led by Budget Director David Stockman, has counseled Reagan to keep open all options, including a tax increase. The pragmatists fear that the strength of the economy may convince the President that the supply-siders are right. Says one Administration official: "The President is going to be aw fully tempted to believe this fairy tale about the deficit...
...films replace inner lives with interior decoration