Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Editorial Board: Marc J. Blitz '89 of Wigglesworth Hall and Ridgewood, N.J.; James E. Canning '88 of Leverett House and Salisbury, Conn.; Deborah E. Copaken '88 of Adams House and Potomac, Md.; Joseph K. Choo '89 of Weld Hall and Lexington; Miles F. Ehrlich '87 of Quincy House and Sacramento, Calif.; Nathan W. Eigerman '88 of Dudley House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; David Greene '89 of Hurlbut Hall and Spring Valley, N.Y.; Josh H. Henkin '87 of Quincy House and New York, N.Y.; Jennifer M. O'Connor of Eliot House and Wellesley; David Patent '88 Cabot House and Missoula, Mont.; Ellen...
George Johnson, the no-nonsense president who has presided over the dynamic emergence of George Mason University, ten miles across the Potomac from Washington, unblushingly describes his public university's mission. "We are entrepreneurial," he says, "responding to the needs of our community." That community is rich Fairfax County, Va., one of the nation's fast-growing areas, loaded with high-tech corporations employing professionals who demand continuing education. "We have CEOs who want doctorates in economics," says Johnson. "Their wives are considering going to law school...
...State Department task force had convened in a windowless suite of seventh-floor offices at Foggy Bottom. Information was scanty, even for President Reagan and National Security Adviser Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, who consulted twice on Monday night. Ironically, Secretary of State Shultz was aboard a ship himself: on a Potomac River barge where he was entertaining Singapore's visiting Prime Minister, Lee Kuan...
...when Goldwater and Nunn stood up on the Senate floor last week and joined forces to attack the performance and structure of the military establishment, the shock waves rippled clear across the Potomac to the innermost rings of the Pentagon. In eight sharply worded speeches, the two Senators accused the military of endangering the nation's defense and squandering its assets with interservice bickering. If the U.S. has to go to war anytime soon, charged Goldwater, "these problems will cause Americans to die unnecessarily. Even more, they may cause us to lose the fight...
...struggle now joined is between Reagan's instincts and the statistics and computer printouts of the experts, the intuitive Westerner vs. the political-academic elite of the Potomac River valley. Reagan believes that Government spending, except for defense, should be cut much more, but if Congress refuses to cut enough, it is better to borrow the money than raise taxes. The irony is that Reagan, having educated the nation about the evils of huge deficits, now wants to change the subject...