Word: peopledeal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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His self-education was wide but shallow. Vienna was peopled with brilliant artists and thinkers; Sigmund Freud's researches, Arnold Schoenberg's music, Oskar Kokoschka's paintings, Arthur Schnitzler's plays, all had their roots in the city. But Hitler dismissed modern art as "decadent." To the impotent and solitary...
On domestic matters, however, Bush relies on a highly structured decision- making process that even has a name. Known to government-school types as multiple advocacy, it is designed to refine options and allow the President to hear his top advisers argue them out. Bush's chief domestic policy adviser...
$ His books are peopled by liberal sophisticates in comfortable, man-made environments. One of the pleasures of reading Updike has been his meticulous attention to the ways, particularly sexually, we live now. But these sleek surfaces reflect hidden depths. He writes, "It was and is still my fate to like...
Bush and his advisers, not a few of whom hail from California, see a very different state: one peopled by wealthy retirees, Yuppie venture capitalists and tax-hating suburbanites, as well as socially conservative farmers and truck drivers. Their vision, like that of Dukakis, leaves out a good deal, but...
For five days last week, violence engulfed much of Burma, a country peopled by devout Buddhists averse to bloodletting, in a spontaneous eruption of discontent that rocked a despised government to its foundations. Then, just as the surge of clashes ebbed slightly -- as if both sides were catching their breath...