Word: pleasant
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These are among the findings of a major national opinion survey conducted for TIME by the research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., from May 12 through May 14.* The poll contained pleasant news for Reagan. His rating "as a leader you can trust" is virtually the same as Jimmy Carter's was at the same month of 1977. One key difference is that Reagan's level of approval has risen 9% since January (to 57%), while Carter's rating was on a downward slide. Majorities ranging from 71% to 52% agreed with the propositions that...
...most common objection is to the tactics of the Irish, particularly the Irish Republican Army. They blow things up, and sometimes innocent people are wasted. But that's the way with wars; almost never are they pleasant. To argue that the accidental killing of civilians makes an army or a cause unworthy of support is an objection to all modern war. The IRA bombs primarily the economic interests of the British, attempting to make further occupation unprofitable. Certainly they are no more violent than Mugabe's legions, or the guerrillas that fight for the rights of El Salvadorans...
...came the announcement that TIME Washington Correspondent Neil MacNeil will receive the first Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting of Congress. MacNeil has covered the Capitol for TIME since 1958. Says he: "The job is a reward itself. Which, of course, makes being honored for doing it doubly pleasant...
...show, Jerry Ford was saying the same thing, quietly, in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was out there on the campus of the university to dedicate his presidential library. There are only seven such libraries in the nation, and the rituals of initiation into this select club are pleasant and special...
Bookstein is simply an extremely dedicated musician. "I intend to become a concert pianist," he says, and he will allow nothing to stand in his way. "I've been known to practice until five in the morning," he continues. "I really find it quite pleasant concentrating for such long periods of time--sort of like running the marathon." He adds with a grin, "Of course the chair helps...