Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marvin Frankel, a former U.S. district judge: "It's the opposite of the open-minded, receptive approach, ready to hear arguments before making a decision." Since his nomination, Reagan has reaffirmed the plank when asked about it, but he has not pushed it zealously. "The Governor takes that phrase at the fair value of the words," says the chief of his campaign staff, former Law Professor Edwin Meese. "He doesn't have any litmus test in mind...
...local architectural firm, was surrounded, of course, by 350 candles. Kevin White, 51, mayor of Boston for what seems like most of its history, lit the first candle and then was mercifully brief in his remarks to the drooling crowd: "This may be the only time that the phrase 'Let them eat cake' can be said both compassionately and joyously." Some four hours later, all 1,800 lbs. had been eaten, joyously and, one would hope, compassionately...
...midst of its growth spurt, Cambridge officially became a city. Over the protests of many upper-crust Cantabrigians, all the communities were officially joined. But, to borrow a phrase from Sutton, "the joining was strictly contractual, rather like a pre-arranged marriage of convenience in which the partners shared little love and continued to sleep in separate bedrooms." Actually, there was comparatively little for government to do--this was a boom era, and local government simply did not enact zoning regulations. It also refrained from planning, and even building codes were rudimentary. The look-the-other-way policy permitted fast...
...mishandling his money. The Harvard Management Company points to its extremely impressive and respected track record and the sizable University endowment--well over $1.7 billion--that it proffers as evidence that Harvard is acting as wisely as it can. The "Every Tub On Its Own Botton" system, a pet phrase the Office of Budgets uses to connote Harvard's decentralized budget management, has functioned to insure informed budget planning and to discourage deficit spending. And though it might seem like the University is rolling in money, the tidy sums it has banked away are crucial to survival...
...message is not getting through. Carter's hyperbole on his own greatness and Ronald Reagan's shortcomings and John Anderson's illegitimacy as a candidate now comes close to being fiction. The totality of the White House assault on every Reagan word and phrase and on Anderson's effort to gain a wider audience seems at times a serious perversion of the campaign system. The wrath that escapes Carter's lips about racism and hatred when he prays and poses as the epitome of Christian charity leads even his supporters to protest his meanness...