Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cope with the political implications of their own aging, infirmity and mortality for a reason that is simple and damning enough: theirs is a system based on the seizure, accumulation and consolidation of power. It has no built-in mechanisms for the sharing or transferring of authority beyond the inner circle. Every time a Soviet leader dies or is incapacitated, the world ought to be reminded of that essential fact...
...imponderables remain. Will the small group of men, whose average age is now 67, choose a successor from the older group and risk another short-lived regime or will they make the bold decision to turn power over to a younger generation that is thinly represented in the inner circle of power...
...results when pushy parents, precocious children, and higher learning institutions join forces. Fortunately, with the mushrooming of advanced placement programs nationwide and increasing research on how to deal with gifted youngsters, the myth of the neglected gifted student is more fiction that fact. And though public education, particularly in inner city schools, has fallen victim to President Reagan's band-aid educational policies, magnet schools and other specialized programs offer talented students an alternative to accelerated education...
...restraint was admirably diplomatic, considering the provocation. The day before, U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Lawrence Eagleburger had denounced Western Europe for its selfish neglect of the Atlantic Alliance. As he told a foreign policy conference in Washington, "We have seen a more and more inner-directed Western Europe, more and more concerned with its own problems, more and more concerned with its economic difficulties, less and less in time with the U.S. It is ever more difficult to get Western Europe to look outside its own borders." He described Western Europe's attitude as "almost a contemplation...
...magazine prospered, and gossip about its inner workings leaked out, White became the country's best-known anonymous journalist. His casual, pithy approach to a paragraph defined brevity and wit for a generation of aspiring stylists. He was so good at what he did that he grew bored with...