Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only 50 years ago? How touching our grandfathers' faith in the future seems, in our day of acid rain, exploding shuttles, decaying inner cities and general creeping dystopia. The mood is epitomized in objects like the male costume of the future dreamed up for Vogue -- a bearded figure in an immaculate white jumpsuit wearing a circular antenna as a halo on his head, John the Baptist among the insulators. Everything is streamlined, even objects that are screwed down and cannot move, so that America's breathless rush toward Utopia is clearly signified by things like a 1933 Raymond Loewy metal...
...inner sanctum of his office in Langley, Va., CIA Director William Casey was interviewed last Friday by TIME Assistant Managing Editor Henry . Muller and Correspondent Bruce van Voorst. Under the ground rules, he refused to discuss sources or methods of covert operations. Repeatedly disclaiming CIA involvement or even knowledge about much of what went on, he defended what he insists was the agency's narrow role in helping the National Security Council...
Young attributes the problem in part to an unemployment rate among inner- city black youth that far exceeds 50%. Some city leaders, however, point fingers at Young, who has long been hostile to gun control and has asserted that citizens need to be able to defend themselves. The availability of handguns, critics say, makes violence inevitable. Says FBI Agent John Anthony: "I remember when carrying a gun was pretty heavy stuff. Now you get 14- and 15-year-old kids carrying guns." Anthony and others claim that the widespread sale and use of crack has promoted warfare among young, heavily...
...After the 1980 election, Meese became Counsellor to the President, a job that carries Cabinet rank. But he shared the inner circle with two other aides, Michael Deaver and James Baker, who ended up wielding more power. Nonetheless, Meese had a special bond with the President. Partly it was based on his keen affinity for Reagan's philosophy and outlook. In addition, his every instinct was to play the role of protector. Unlike Donald Regan, who seems infected with the arrogance of his own power, Meese infuses almost every public utterance with a sense that he is acting only...
William Jones, 39, never knew his father. He and his six siblings grew up on welfare in his mother's Harlem household. Like so many in the inner city, he became disillusioned with high school, dropped out, got into drugs. "I was on the street. I felt I knew everything," he remembers. "I only started missing my schooling when my kids came along. That's when I knew what I didn't know." Eleven years ago, the teenage mother of Jones' two children left, never to be heard from again. Shortly thereafter, Jones lost his job and went on welfare...