Word: nearing
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...route. Most dismiss a return to Texas and another run for elective office. (Baker lost a 1978 race for Texas attorney general.) "That might get him the political base he needs," says Baker's son Jamie. "But it's risky. There's no reason he couldn't leave State near the end of Bush's tenure and work it from the outside...
...learn," he explains. "That and taking almost verbatim notes when someone is briefing me. 'Proper preparation prevents poor performance': one of my father's maxims. That's how you gain control. I'm on Africa now," he says. "We'll pick up and move when I get to the Near East...
...regional level, the advantages of Sino-Soviet detente are already evident. The ten-year Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea appears near an end. Following Moscow's example, India has started to mend its frayed relations with China...
...discussed ethics with residents of Elmbrook University Center, one of Boston's two all-male chapters of the Catholic group Opus Dei. Housed in a three-story building near the Law School, the group works to spread the "Christian message," said center resident Mark Albanese...
...dandy, wringing an uncanny poetry not only from his own neurosis but also from the psychic inflammations of Europe in the 1920s and '30s. Like his fellow Catalan Joan Miro, Dali was deep-dyed with images of place, among them the contorted rocks and flat beaches of the coast near the town of Figueras, where he grew up, and the flowing, bizarre buildings of Barcelona's master of art nouveau, Antonio Gaudi...