Word: praiseed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back when Joe Kahn was writing giddy letters of praise to his kindergarten teacher, Bok was refusing to cover angles (e.g. on divestiture or the numbers of women and minority students at Harvard) with students, face-to-face. Joe Kahn sees polish and refinement. I see a tenure of increasingly...
To push tax reform through the Democrat-controlled House, the President had taken a calculated gamble and formed an unholy alliance with Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a bluff old-style Democratic pol. Though studded with deals and concessions to buy off various Congressmen and their constituencies, the tax...
Except for one failure with quenelles ("I got the water too hot") and another with a seven-layer torte ("the texture was wrong"), everything she set a hand to precisely matched its published image. The praise from dinner guests was heady, very heady.
"Jesus loves you, praise him!"
At stake in the House this week will be the fate of tax reform, described several times by Reagan as his "No. 1" domestic priority. Last week, after months of bartering, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a 1,363-page Democratic version by a vote of 28 to...