Word: oval
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...title suggests a position of great influence: chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. In the past few Administrations, however, those who held the post tended to wind up as voices in the wilderness rather than confidants in the Oval Office. But George Bush's choice for the post, Stanford University Professor Michael Boskin, 43, is a trusted adviser and an open- minded scholar who could help restore genuine authority to the job. Says Robert Litan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution: "For the first time in recent memory, the incoming chairman is someone who was deeply...
...then sent them across town to front-row seats at the swearing- in of the country's 41st President. The White House beat is not always so glamorous. Or so easy. It requires unusual quantities of persistence, curiosity and humor, qualities that both correspondents demonstrated before they reached the Oval Office watch...
...contrast to the gaudy old Garnier, the 2,700-seat Bastille opera is designed to be austerely functional -- a bleak concrete, stainless-steel and glass oval, with gray-black granite floors and walls and five revolving stages for fast changes of scene. "The whole idea of this opera house is that it is very sober," according to architect Carlos Ott, 42. "You don't have decoration inside the hall. The decor is on the stage...
...other Administration leaders and then members of Congress; and trust their confidence eventually to be reflected in the news media and among the public. If he can make that strategy succeed, the rewards can be great. Five of the past ten Vice Presidents have eventually moved into the Oval Office, and two more have been nominated by their parties for the White House. So the whole nation has a stake in whether the Vice President can gradually make the phrase President Quayle something other than a trigger for laughter -- or dismay...
Ronald Reagan hesitated for a moment in the cool luminance of the Oval Office, his last minutes as President ticking by. Tears welled in the eyes of the few aides who surrounded him, but Reagan was busy reaching into his coat pocket as he fished out a white laminated card...