Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have the desire. I know I could do the job. I know I would do it as it should be done. At the same time, I have much less ambition than people think. That is my secret weapon. I could be out of the government tomorrow without a minute of crisis. My strength does not come from political life. It comes from my family, the land, my farm. I have a lot of things I want very much to do and would never be bored doing them...
What brass! When she had the nerve to try to become a practicing attorney, Myra Bradwell was rebuked by no less a body than the U.S. Supreme Court. "The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life," wrote Justice Joseph Bradley in an 1873 opinion. A century later, the unseemly became ordinary as women, riding a new wave of feminism, swept through the nation's law schools. In the U.S. today, more than 40% of law students and 20% of lawyers are women. As their...
...does a President stay up while going down? "This low-key, no-pressure, no-sweat President has engendered more response than Ronald Reagan," says political analyst Horace Busby, once an aide to Lyndon Johnson. "The American people have much less need for Washington than Washington wants to believe...
...them. Bush's presence is diminishing, that of Cabinet officers and other Administration spokesmen rising. The White House now is the focus of Administration news only about half the time, compared with 72% in the first days. "So far," says Lichter, "the 'just folks' presidency is working. Bush gets less press but better press. Bush is far more visible to the press than he is to the public, just the opposite of Reagan, who was far more visible to the people than to the press...
...current academic vogue for bloodless and pseudoscientific historiography that the author repeatedly feels a need to apologize for what he somewhat disingenuously calls a "mischievously old-fashioned piece of storytelling." If Schama's portrait of the revolution is often surprising in its closeup details, however, it is no less so in coloring the background imagery of the French society being overturned...