Word: intersected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of the troika, in contrast, are in effect?though not in title?three Chiefs of Staff. The duties and powers of the three men are ill defined; they overlap and intersect at a thousand points. The personalities differ in substantive ways. Meese, a cautious lawyer and the most conservative of the troika, specializes in summarizing conflicting arguments without committing himself. Baker, also a lawyer, is a hard-driving organizer with finely tuned political instincts. Deaver, an affable former public relations consultant, is concerned, above all, with the welfare and comfort of the First Family. Californians Meese and Deaver have...
Eidenberg said yesterday his study group will "look at where politics and policy intersect." The guests will provide their "own specific perspectives on the Carter presidency," he added...
Transit charts six major characters as they journey through the space of thirty years. They intersect, gravitate around each other, spin away into lonely emptiness while a dozen minor characters drift around these central constellations. They construct galaxies and float apart with the humble wonder we feel when we muse on the infinity of the sky, in oceanic silence, and trace the impersonal yet poignant movement of the stars. Hazzard sees things in two planes, as both personal emotion and tragedy, life through the wrong end of a telescope, transparently removed--almost mythologized...
Politics and culture intersect somewhere in all societies, but in 19th century Vienna they positively embraced. That alone made the city unusual. The middle-class liberals who gained parliamentary control in the 1860s were ingenuously industrious and earnest...