Word: molds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...select an author? Or a social activist in the Marion Wright Edelman mold? Anyone could bring fresh perspective to this crusty old body. And the presence of professors on the board will ensure that the Corporation's decisions are in the best interests of academia...
...relevant and disconcerting is that the same can be said about current White House support for unrestricted Choice: no one knows what it will produce. For as Bush White House domestic policy adviser Roger Porter puts it, "The Administration is committed to shaking up the system and breaking the mold...
...surrender Moscow's global influence and accept subservience to Washington. After Shevardnadze's resignation in December, hard-liners in the Party Central Committee and the military pressured Gorbachev to name as the new Foreign Minister a professional bureaucrat rather than a relatively independent, personally powerful figure in the Shevardnadze mold. Gorbachev obliged them by picking Alexander Bessmertnykh, a career diplomat...
Avranas' "crime" was failing to fit the mold of tradition, exemplified by, among others, Captain E.J. Smith of the Titanic. Smith exhorted those who remained on board the doomed liner to "Be British!," made sure women and children left first, and did go down with his ship (along with about 1,500 others...
...shape the late-starting, who's-running-anyway Democratic race and provide a forum for the Bush Administration to field-test its campaign themes. As Edward Fouhy, executive producer of the PBS broadcast, puts it, "This is the only thing that holds the hope of breaking out of the mold that we -- both journalists and politicians -- have been caught...