Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know the fellow on the left, but the one with the notebook is probably a little less familiar. He is John Parmelee, 17, a high school senior in the District of Columbia who saw his dream come true last week when he interviewed Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office. "He put me at ease immediately," Parmelee said. The student spent ten minutes with the President, asking him, among other things, how life had been different when Reagan was 17. "I wasn't doing what you're doing," the President said with a smile to his White House visitor...
...accused by the U.S. last summer of selling Iran Silkworm missiles that threatened shipping in the Persian Gulf, officials in Beijing entered the diplomatic equivalent of a consent decree. They denied having made such sales but promised to make none in the future. The same officials are saying even less about another recently disclosed missile deal: the sale to Saudi Arabia of an undisclosed number of intermediate-range CSS-2 missiles capable of reaching virtually anywhere in the Middle East, including Israel...
...bohemian belle to the poet turned adman. Yet White can always save a wearying passage with some apercu about himself or some chillingly uninflected glimpse of cruelty. And if his protracted tale about coming out seems dated, that merely reflects White's master plan: he aims at nothing less than a social history of emerging gay consciousness from the suppressed 1950s through the '60s. In the era of AIDS, White's novel is a fiercely remembered plea not to push gays back into the closet...
...Great Communicator," he declared with little fear of being challenged on this prophecy. "I want to be known as a Great Builder." It is a clunky but apt moniker for a candidate who remains closer in spirit to Robert Moses than to Robert Kennedy. "People are maybe less interested in charisma and a lot more interested in somebody who can go in there and really provide the kind of presidential leadership we need," Dukakis told TIME. "I am what I am. I'm not somebody else...
...Foner says that objections to his course today are less political and can be resolved without taking the issue beyond the classroom. "You want open and frank discussion of ideas as long as it remains within the boundaries of intellectual discourse," he says...