Word: key
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is the key to pulling off any affectation. You must not look like you're trying to do anything. Use any excuse or alibi--I like it, I think it looks good, it's all that was available, I did it on a dare--but never ever admit to an affectation...
...equipped to oversee the Bush slowdown. On the Hill, Tower had a reputation as a man who couldn't say no to a weapons system. He was regarded by his own backers as autocratic and impatient with lesser minds -- a "mean s.o.b." who never got along well with key members of Congress, said a loyal aide...
...Another key reason for the rising interest rates is the federal budget deficit, which is expected to total $137 billion in fiscal 1990. Paul Volcker, the former Fed chairman and now a Wall Street financier, warned a congressional commission last week that unless the Government reduces its huge borrowing needs, "there is the risk of a real financial disturbance. It would bring about the kind of recession that would be the most difficult to handle." One way in which the deficit has triggered higher rates is by undermining foreign confidence in the dollar, which plunged more than 3% against...
...tally -- 1,344 ayes, five nays and 27 abstentions -- might have added up to a lopsided victory elsewhere, but the flicker of opposition to a key Kremlin program was a historic event in the Soviet parliament, long considered no more than a rubber stamp. Had the leadership not sought a compromise last week between the central government and a handful of republics over proposed electoral changes, the count of naysayers might have been even higher...
...sunny day in October, Kimi Gray was handed a gold key in a celebration marking the first time in U.S. history that public-housing residents could become the owners of their homes. To her, it was an occasion rich with meaning. "Poor people," she says, "are allowed the same dreams as everyone else." The event was a significant step in a revolution that has been moving through more than a dozen public-housing projects across America for 15 years. In these complexes, tenants have balked at the notion that poverty means helplessness, and are taking over the management of their...