Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, the President and some of his top aides felt frustrated. The requirement to notify Congress of covert operations was constraining; Casey in particular believed in telling the legislators no more than the law required -- and sometimes less. Worse, when covert actions made necessary the participation of a skeptical, often skittish, federal bureaucracy, it seemed to place roadblocks in Reagan's way. Some congressional sources are pursuing the theory that in early 1983 the President and a few top members of his Cabinet decided to move some covert operations to the National Security Council staff, which, because...
...royal family has never lacked for ink in the British press, especially ! in the flashier tabloids whose rival scoops are sometimes mountains built from one grain of fact. Diana, in particular, attracts headlines: over the course of her six-year marriage to Prince Charles, she has been reported pregnant countless times, has spent a king's ransom on clothes and was anorexic. Lately, however, British papers have been feasting on an unusually large banquet of negative stories about the younger royals, including once unthinkable innuendos about (gasp!) Diana's marital fidelity...
...changeover to the metric system, in other words, need not be an all-or- nothing proposition -- a remarkably sensible perspective. After all, the reasons for conversion are economic: it is important for U.S. industry to compete in international markets, but there is no particular value in changing the weather report on the nightly news. For most Americans, it seems, an ounce of prevention was worth a kilogram of cure...
...architecture, the style was set going by Jefferson, the father of American architectural thought (as distinct from mere building). His particular inspiration was one structure, a Roman temple known as the Maison Carree at Nimes in the south of France. All the architectural work he had admired during his years as American Minister to France from 1785-89 -- Pierre Rousseau's Hotel de Salm, the Pantheon, the mock ruins of the Desert de Retz, the designs of dead masters like Andrea Palladio and living architects like Etienne Louis Boullee and Claude Nicolas Ledoux -- would leave their traces...
...reformers and conservatives on the Politburo compelled Gorbachev to put off seeking endorsement of specific decrees that would put his radical reforms into effect. Instead, the General Secretary pledged to present a detailed plan before the end of the year. As if frustrated by the delay, he attacked with particular relish the subject of slovenly industrial habits. Noting a decline in the enthusiasm for discipline and order that first accompanied his reforms, he charged that "loafers, spongers and pilferers once again feel at ease...