Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complicated jigsaw puzzle. Reagan clearly wanted to select experienced people, but hard-line conservatives like North Carolina's Jesse Helms opposed having too many "retreads" from the Nixon and Ford Administrations. An added complication was the fact that Reagan intends to govern largely through an executive committee, an "inner circle" of six or so senior Cabinet officers, plus, on appropriate occasions, the directors...
...mine." Around the corner. Down the block. Next door. Think what their front yards will look like. Imagine the kind of music they will play. You can understand the singer's feelings when he stubbornly insists: "I ain't moving out for no Carol and Bob/ The inner city is too close to my job." You may admire the vehemence of his stand even as you sense its moral blindness and recognize its hopelessness, just as the singer does when he moans, "There goes the neighborhood/ The whites are moving...
...separate inner core of Cabinet advisers, meeting regularly and with an independent staff, is necessary because the full 15-member Cabinet is too cumbersome, the authors...
...accord with the ExCab format, Reagan has reportedly selected the secretaries of State, Defense, the Treasury and the Attorney General--Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., Caspar W. Weinberger '38, Walter B. Wriston and William French Smith respectively--as his "inner ring" of advisers...
...Everything in the system will conspire to drive the president and that inner circle apart," Neustadt said, adding, "I don't think anything you do is going to be like sliced bread and cure all the difficulties of the system...