Word: pragmatist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maurice Stokes game, an irresistible charity, he was exposing himself only to a few thousand "screaming precocious kids." While coaching the Cincinnati Royals in 1969, Cousy actually came back for a few N.B.A. minutes, merely as the pragmatist cooperating with the merchandisers "trying to jazz up business with old No. 14 on the bench." Sitting beside him, actually inside him, was the sentimentalist. "I never wanted to expose the old bod' before that 35-and-over group, to spoil the illusion, destroy the myth, look like what you are, a tired...
...need to eliminate the vestiges of colonialism and the country's age-old social inequities. "We must get the poor and the weak of India out of their rut, out of the morass they are stuck in," he said recently. Most political experts see him as a pragmatist, like his late brother, who favors a somewhat larger place for private enterprise within socialist India than did his mother...
...PRAGMATISTS. When they won control of the Senate in 1980, after nearly three decades in opposition, the Republicans discovered some of the burdens of governing. No longer could they snipe from the sidelines; they had to learn to make compromises and lubricate the legislative wheels. The experience has been sobering. Majority Leader Baker, the son-in-law and political heir of Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois, warned at the outset that supply-side economics would be a "riverboat gamble"; now he worries about how to cut the resulting federal deficits ($195 billion last year). State Governors, of course...
...real battle for control of the Republican Party in 1988 will probably involve pragmatists, such as Baker and Dole, fighting against the pop-cons, possibly represented by Kemp, with Bush struggling to be viewed as a loyal Reaganaut but generally perceived as part of the pragmatist claque. Both wings will have to pitch themselves to a new generation of voters: the maturing baby boomers, who are not yet clearly identified as either Republican or Democrat...
...Attorney General in the wake of the resignation of William French Smith, once the President's personal lawyer. The other two members of the "troika" that constituted a kind of inner Government are expected to depart soon after Election Day: White House Chief of Staff James Baker, a pragmatist and tactician, to another post in the Government, and Deputy Chief Michael Deaver, one of Reagan's oldest and closest friends, to private life...