Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Presidential transitions never run the way the people involved want them to run, or the way the nation expects. Politics and Government simply cannot be programmed like an IBM training course for junior executives. Which is to say the Reagan transition, with its arguments, leaks, hesitations, minor embarrassments, excessive personnel and plethora of reports, is doing pretty well...
Preliminary recommendations from the Reagan transition task forces have sent a minor shock wave through the capital. For most of the past 40 years this city has been used to new Presidents' promising dramatic departures but actually only reassembling existing ideas and programs under new slogans. Already Reagan has been urged by his advance scouts to reconsider the proposed new MX missile system and seek a cheaper and more imaginative modification of our current missile arsenal. It has been recommended that upon taking office tie declare a national economic emergency; that he seek congressional authority for a series...
...noted that faculty members identified "minor complications" with several recommendations but that the students seemed receptive to faculty suggestions...
Indian style, with a back panel woven of nearly 40,000 beads. The labor and time entailed in all this are meant to remind us of the vast anonymous efforts expended by women through the centuries on supposedly minor, "decorative" arts, and to help rehabilitate all fiberwork as a serious medium of visual discourse. So they do-at times movingly; and it is well to keep in mind how many of the vestments, arrases and other trappings whose function was to affirm male power, from the Bayeux Tapestry to the sacerdotal wardrobes of the church, were actually made by women...
Second, the conservatives say the media have misinterpreted "minor differences" among New Right groups, and exaggerated their failure to succeed in every encounter with the left. "If we get 80 per cent of what we want, and don't compromise our demands on the rest, we are doing well, and we can do that," says Viguerie. Weyrich cites a recent orientation session held in Washington for new conservative Congressmen, which was sponsored by 18 New Right groups. "Our bonds are only getting stronger as we work more with each other," he boasts...