Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official said White House staff members were "disturbed and surprised" to learn Marcos had permitted a television crew to witness the conversation, which the source said was arranged as a private talk between friends...
...TIME last September, joining Van Voorst on the Pentagon beat. He had just completed two years of reporting for Defense Week, a Washington newsletter on military policies. "Under the Reagan Administration, the military began to receive a remarkable amount of money and influence, and it seemed important to learn more about it," he says. "My father's generation nearly all had firsthand experience with the military, but mine hasn...
...buildings provide none of the easy reassurance of neat taxonomy. His work has evolved continually, but not in response to shifts in fashion or doctrine. Like Finland's Alvar Aalto, Bohm invented his own humane, smart architectural dialect, and then waited patiently for the rest of the world to learn...
...really went after him and he's gotten better," said Casey. "He's got to learn to throw every pitch as hard as he can. He's got to learn he's got enough stuff to challenge people. He's in charge...
...lesson that we should learn from the last decade of economic dislocation in the industrial North is not the Reaganism of "survival of the fittest." Instead, we should have learned that the whole country has a responsibility to ease the painful process of industrial/regional economic adjustment. The same economic process which left thousands unemployed in the auto and steel industries is now affecting workers in the oil states. Our response to this regional depression shouldn't be joyful declarations of "Christmas in April," but a concerted governmental effort to minimize the short-term impact of falling oil prices--through programs...