Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT does it mean when important leaders of our society withdraw from the political debate? Can it be that they see themselves as the modern-day equivalents of mythology's Paris--believing that a wrong choice on their part could launch a thousand ships? What a thought. Either these leaders are right about their importance in society--which would be frightening enough--or, more disturbingly, they could be trying to guide our national institutions toward some ideal where values like Veritas and objectivity dwarf the petty concerns of partisan politics...
...nice that people are respecting our program and that some of our players are getting recognition," Princeton Coach Steve Tosches said. "But [the attention] doesn't mean anything when the actual games start...
...what exactly does this facelift mean for the Kennedy School? Does the school plan to concentrate all its interests in the field of diplomacy and international relations? Is it aiming to become the new stomping ground for European and Third World bureaucracies? Will it now boast proudly of the Cambridge-Cairo connection in the same way that once it heralded the Boston-Washington link...
Neither of them talks about the prize or seems to care about the benefits. "The medals don't mean anything," says Thompson, "and the glory doesn't last. It's all about performing well, and feeling deeply about it." Joyner- Kersee says, "The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport, loving sport, period." Zaharias and Thorpe are around today, honestly, and everyone has heard of them...
...eleven; Bentsen, a mere five. Every issue has become a family issue. Dukakis promises the "kind of America that provides American workers and their families" -- would single workers not have merited? -- "with at least 60 days' notice when a factory or a plant shuts down" and "jobs -- and I mean good jobs, jobs you can raise a family on." Bush averred that in business he learned that jobs "meant creating opportunity, which meant happy families." The unit of measure, and manipulation, in politics is no longer the citizen. It is the family...