Word: morass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fletcher's wacky, lovely wife Gloria, who died driving her Jag too fast. In fairly short order, given his necessity to invoke Goethe, Swinburne, Auden, the Old Testament, Shakespeare, Conrad, Dostoyevsky, The Barber of Seville, Beethoven, Berenson, Vasari and other fonts of circumstantial wisdom, Usher stumbles into a morass of rot in Mass. As friends keep telling him, "Things don't happen to you: you happen to things...
...Peres plan is clearly highly ambitious, but many Israelis appear to be in a receptive mood for change. They now seem to realize that only a vigorous new demonstration of political will can pull Israel out of its economic morass and political malaise...
...Richard Nixon, Terrel Bell admitted that being at odds with the President "is really part of the job." Said he: "I want to exhort, stir things up, tread on toes." After serving under Gerald Ford, Bell backed the ultimately successful drive to make education a department separate from the morass of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services). Now, as the prospective Education Secretary, the final Cabinet choice to be named by Ronald Reagan, Bell should find it easy to be at odds with his new boss, who favors dismantling the year-old Department of Education...
...project--at first glance the book seems to hold no ethical or political point of view. Wilson steers clear of rhetoric. When discussing a potentially controversial subject such as religious belief, he neither defends the value of faith nor criticizes its conflict with scientific evidence. He avoids the ethical morass and focuses on the religious impulse as a product of human evolution...
...declaring an economic emergency: What's needed is to do what Reagan said he would do. The semantics don't matter. What he said he would do is stimulate the private sector through cutting taxes, simplifying the regulatory morass and controlling the growth of Government spending. That's what should be the first and early thrust of this Administration, and in my humble view, that's what it will...