Word: overlapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secondary quartet of foreign policymakers consists of Young, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Arms Control Director Paul Warnke and CIA Director Stansfield Turner. The two circles overlap in ways that increase consultation and give and take. Brown, for example, lunches each week with Brzezinski and Vance, and he is highly regarded in the White House, says one official there, as "a lot more than just a spokesman for the generals and the military-industrial complex." The outspoken Young has his own special relationship with the President, who pays close heed to his opinions and has no regrets about the way Young...
Prerequisites are few. Prefer applicants who can differentiate between intercollegiate and intramural athletics, although this is hardly a necessity. Other requirements include ability to speak on telephone for extended periods of time and varied extracurricular activities, no four of which may overlap...
...good man with only Dreyfus, unjustly accused of a public crime for private reasons, in between. Through this method of historical "postholing," Sennett presents only the finished products--the public personality at one end of the continuum and the private at the other--but none of their overlap. The upshot is that these two "separate molecules" of society remain worlds apart in a way that Sennett at first advocates but in the end cannot even himself believe...
...make this "busy" composition (compressed into a base about a foot or so square) are cut-outs remarkably like the cross-sections you see of the human tongue in a biology textbook. It would be easy to see this sculpture as a sort of satire of speech: the forms overlap like conversations do at a cocktail party. And as you walk around the piece it is as hard to decide which angle it looks best from as it is to decide where to stand in a crowd--you move and one form overshadows the ones next to it, just...
...Schultze's Washington savvy. Once Blumenthal settles into his job, however, he is expected to increase his clout, particularly on tax matters and international economic policy. Schultze is the President's most trusted adviser on overall economic policy, while Lance runs the budget. Where the two areas overlap, Schultze and Lance have had no trouble cooperating...