Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside of politics, Baker's greatest passion is photography, a hobby that allows him to hone his skills as a detached observer even during an event like the presidential Inauguration. He is also fascinated by old cars; he owns a 1950 Packard, a 1951 Studebaker, a 1962 Ford convertible and a 1963 Chrysler. (But he is driven to Capitol Hill from his home in northwest Washington, promptly at 8:30 every morning, in the brown Cadillac that is one of the perks of his office...
Italy's love food becomes an all-American passion...
...question about world poverty, he said the issue must be addressed in the future by political solutions. "I don't see much from charity alone." But, as he stressed, Graham comes from a tradition that exalted charity, the role of the missionary. The difference gives liberation theology its passion. A hundred 707s filled with food will do little to stop the misery that engulfs most of the planet; only deep-rooted change will...
...renewed cold war atmosphere freezes the United States and the Soviet Union into intransigent positions. Russia launches escapades in Afghanistan and Poland. The bottom line of all this--more nuclear weapons that are increasingly complex and hence more prone to accidental detonation. This is the stuff of dissent, of passion, of fear. And these are the supporting actors, the backdrop and the props for the ultimate scenario of the absurd...
This, then, is how a dead museum comes back to life, says Carney Gavin, with sweat and passion and hard-earned pennies. It pulls itself up by its own bootstraps...