Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar manner, earlier sectioning, another goal of the abbreviated shopping period, was rendered impossible by the presence of students who continued to switch in and out after the nominal deadline, thus sabotaging any hope for an earlier start...
...these -- a businessman named Mahound -- who has settled Rushdie's mulligatawny as far as Islamic fundamentalists are concerned. For the Gibreel-Mahound exchanges are based, in an obviously distorted and hallucinatory manner, on an episode in the life of Muhammad: the Prophet's early willingness to include in the Qur'an an acknowledgment of three female deities and his later repudiation of these verses as satanically inspired. If Muhammad himself was willing to admit that he had been deceived, it is difficult to see why a tangential, fictional version of this long-ago event should cause such contemporary furor...
...historical experience," he said. "The recent model has been one of national dominance in an international economic system -- as represented by the United States in the aftermath of World War II or by Britain in the latter half of the 19th century. Our new leadership is more in the manner of an architect and builder, patiently and tenaciously pursuing a vision of economic growth and prosperity, trying to persuade others what may be accomplished while contributing our fair share...
...think he first knew for sure that he could handle the job when he was at Treasury," says Jamie Baker. "Before that, he had very successfully dealt with all manner of politicians at home. Then he prevailed in a complex negotiation with some very savvy foreigners in a field he knew not too much about. To relate it to basketball, I think that's when Dad, in his own mind, realized for certain that he could play above...
...Baker who regularly needed to keep Bush on board with the fall campaign's attack strategy. By all accounts, the key to his success with Bush was a smooth manner. At every turn, Baker played the high-priced corporate lawyer who subtly guides his client to "choose" the option the lawyer intended from the start. "Everything was couched in the most mild way so as to let Bush make the final decisions," says one of the campaign's senior advisers. "It was always 'Hey, Bushie, the gang here thinks you ought to do thus and such -- but only...