Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such an ideologically controversial nominee, one whose effect on the court and the nation could be enormous for years to come, is ultimately a political matter. If Americans watching the hearings this week like what they see, if they are reassured by either Bork's mind or his manner, the advice and consent of the public will certainly be felt on the Senate floor. And if the public becomes convinced that Bork's views are, as opponents charge, so far from the mainstream that they seem to threaten the rights that Americans have come to cherish, such sentiments will likewise...
THESE STUDENTS are not the only guilty parties in this drama. They reflect a change in the American way of thinking that appears prominently in all manner of government policy and especially in economic matters...
...manner of Hess's death stirred shock and suspicion. An obvious suicide risk, Hess had tried to kill himself on at least four occasions, including a 1977 attempt in which he used a blunt dinner knife to gouge his wrists, foot and elbow. His son, Wolf Rudiger Hess, 49, a Munich civil engineer, complained about "too many mysterious circumstances" surrounding his father's death, while Alfred Seidl, the old man's lawyer, argued that it would have been physically impossible for Hess, frail and nearly blind, to have throttled himself. The suicide was a particular embarrassment to the U.S., which...
John Taylor recounts the 1984 assaults on Walt Disney Productions by corporate raiders in a manner the founder would have approved: brisk narrative colored in primary emotional tones. The takeover artists are sometimes attractively shrewd but heedlessly greedy -- for action as much as for power and money. The company's executives, ponderously led by President Ron Miller, are brave but inept in their resistance. Meanwhile, Walt's nephew Roy and the other heirs squabble among themselves. In the end, all concerned muddle their way to a bright new management team -- imported from Paramount and Warner Bros. -- that will restore...
Jackson has his own quick method of detecting motives in others. "I can look into a person's eyes," he says, almost preening, "and tell what he's really up to." His jousting manner intimidates people, and Jackson swiftly spots the signs. In 1984, by Candidate Walter Mondale's wandering eyes and hurried speech, Jackson knew that Mondale was afraid...