Word: modernes
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...program titled "Personal Perspectives on Politics," the former governors, campaign experts and political activists outlined distinctions they have observed working as insiders or outsiders to the political process. Before an audience of about 150 people, the panelists affirmed their committment to public service while acknowledging limits to modern-day politicking...
...willing and brave enough to risk controversial roles like 'Crimes of Passion' and `Julia and Julia,' and potentially unglamorous roles like `Peggy Sue Got Married,'" said Dwyang. "She's played both the femme fatale and the quintessential modern romantic commedienne--that's versatility for you. She resists typecasting...
When George Bush became President last week, he inherited that mountainous load, along with a 74-month economic boom, the longest peacetime expansion in the modern era. Bush, who once ridiculed Reagan's policies as "voodoo economics," must now confront both sides of the Reaganomics legacy. In doing so, he will turn for economic advice to a profession that is struggling to find new ways of understanding the unprecedented boom-and-borrow cycle of the past eight years...
...needs an expensive new opera house. The grand old Palais Garnier, with all its gilt mirrors and chandeliers and its resident phantom, has delighted audiences for more than a century. But cultural-monument building is a beloved Parisian occupation, and after the success of President Georges Pompidou's imposing modern-art center, Mitterrand naturally began in 1981 to think about a new opera house. Being a Socialist, he talked glowingly of popular, modern opera, and the edifice was assigned to the gritty Bastille area...
Problems of the Modern Vice Presidency. Professors: former Vice Presidents Richard Nixon and Walter Mondale...