Word: let
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Barbara has been most influential on issues that concern her deeply or where her husband is behind the curve, like AIDS, the homeless, civil rights and education. In the late 1950s, she battled segregationist innkeepers who refused to let the family's black baby-sitter stay with them in the same hotel. She was instrumental in the appointment of the only black in Bush's Cabinet, Dr. Louis Sullivan, whom she came to know from her work at Morehouse...
Reagan went into his second term with a lackluster cadre of close advisers determined to "let Reagan be Reagan." The energy level dropped, and so did the level of expertise. Only after the traumas of the Republicans' 1986 loss of the Senate and the Iran-contra scandal upset the chessboard did Reagan put effective knights into play again. But he had lost two precious years in the interim, and with them the initiative in dealing with accumulating problems...
...bought and sold," he says. "We're not Quaker Oats." But he was under intense pressure to accept the offer from Enid's town fathers, who in March 1988 paid $14.3 million to keep the campus afloat, and now charge the university rent. As a compromise, Peck let Kyoto underwrite a summer program for up to 50 Japanese students...
What prevents The January Man from turning into a downscale Dangerous Liaisons is the movie's refusal to let the characters acknowledge this edgy subtext. Shanley instead provides a funny, melodramatic hubbub to distract our attention. His busy plotting may require a suspension of incredulity, but he is well served by good actors; by a director, Pat O'Connor, with a taste for the acrid flavors of big-city life; and by his own delight in human eccentricity...
...Pentagon and the State Department, they still remember a White House meeting of the National Drug Policy Board at which Education Secretary William Bennett growled, "Let's send the helicopters into Bolivia again to destroy the drug sources...