Word: intellection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opportunity he spurned, choosing instead to devote his energy and intellect to serving others. His uncompromising and unrelenting insistence on the end of de jure white supremacy, coupled with the political savvy necessary to obtain results, led to one of the most significant political and social events in modern world history: the South African government's gradual abolition of apartheid...
...going to win--there's not a question inmy mind, and we're ready to prove that," said CarlRosendorf, a resident of Weston who was a memberof Harshbarger's finance committee. "When thevoters compare the candidates' intellect, theirrecords, and their vision, the choice for theright candidate will be clear and compelling...
...complicated business here was not so much James Dickey's life (he died in early 1997 at the age of 73) as his son's effort--tender, scathing, forgiving--to sort it out. Christopher Dickey begins the book, "My father was a great poet, a famous novelist, a powerful intellect, and a son of a bitch I hated...
Editorial pages throughout the nation fairly quivered with indignation Tuesday in response to President Clinton's Monday night speech. "Clinton's hollow apology puts nothing to rest," headlined USA Today. "How someone of such surpassing intellect and such protean political talents could indulge in such reckless conduct ... is not a new question," lamented the New York Times. "The currency of the presidency," said the Chicago Tribune, "has been devalued." The Miami Herald was even more scathing: "Bill Clinton looked America in the eye Monday night and defined himself as a liar...
...official, "legitimizes the President's leadership on the China issue. We have demonstrated that engagement is a way to get results." Clinton set out, his aides say, to "de-demonize" China. In the process, Clinton did a peerless public relations job for Jiang's authoritarian state, effusively praising his intellect, energy and imagination...