Word: madison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James Madison, who did so much to write into our Government its elaborate system of checks and balances, would have managed a smile. "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition," he wrote in 1788. "In framing a Government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the Government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself...
...Madison never envisioned what we have today; thousands of well-financed special interests contending with each other and the Government while the nation watches through the media. But he knew that some sort of power balance was necessary to preserve "the rights of the people...
Having salvaged the two satellites, NASA can now sell them (price: $35 million apiece). As they walked in space last week, Astronauts Allen and Gardner indulged in some Madison Avenue pizazz, jokingly holding a FOR SALE sign over one of the recaptured birds. NASA hopes the mission will put it into the satellite recovery business. A major hitch, of course, is that the shuttle can only climb to 500 miles, while many of the most important satellites are 22,300 miles up in geostationary orbit-that is, rotating with the earth and staying at a fixed point in the heavens...
...easy for those who do; explaining it to others will always be the problem. Fighting is as likely to fall to one of the medical associations that challenge it regularly as five Olympic heroes are to lose to five hand-picked opponents in a debutants' brawl at Madison Square Garden...
...White House Chief of Staff James Baker decided last spring to stress broad themes over specific issues, to play up feelings of patriotism and prosperity rather than defend the details of Reagan's policies. The execution was left to Tuesday Team Inc., the cadre of Madison Avenue superstars recruited for the re-election account. Few of them had done political commercials before; their experience lay in dreaming up singing felines for Meow Mix cat food and tingly, tender ads for Pepsi-Cola. Disappointed with the mediocre political spots used in 1980, Deaver and Nancy Reagan this time insisted...