Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson calls on alumni to elect Tutu to the Board of Overseers, in order to ensure that this powerful divestment activist has the opportunity to bring his message to the inner circles of Harvard's decision making process...
Before Tower could slip through the Senate confirmation process by relying on senatorial courtesy from his former colleagues, Senator Sam Nunn (D.-Ga) and the other Democrats on the Armed Services Committee showed they weren't too pleased with the nominee Bush had offered them. To the dismay of the nine Republicans on the committee who voted for Tower, all 11 Democrats voted against the former senator...
...striving Type A's. He appears joyful in his new post, though his return to public service dumps him into a sticky triangular paradox. Alone among Reagan advisers, Darman lent his name to a Washington coinage: "Darmanesque" denotes the arcane stratagems he devised to promote Reagan policies. In the process of advancing Reaganomics, he sometimes swallowed his own skepticism about its wisdom. Now Darman must extricate Bush from the tar pit that is Ronald Reagan's fiscal legacy. The incongruity does not diminish his enthusiasm...
...Bring up the "Darman book," and its author wants to change the subject. A talented writer who enjoys the craft, Darman writes occasional essays, sometimes leavening abstruse material with sports metaphors. He began a major analytical book on the process of governance 14 years ago, during one of his brief recesses from public service. He treated the work as a secret, showing pieces of it only reluctantly to a few friends. Elliot Richardson, his first Washington mentor, recalls it as "marvelously prescient and penetrating," in part because of Darman's gift for dispassionate analysis. Says Richardson: "Dick never allowed...
Rushdie possesses an egotistical, self-righteous streak that has not always endeared him to his fellow Britons. He has been an articulate critic of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's economic policies. And somewhere in the process of becoming Westernized, Rushdie lost his faith. "When I was young, I was religious in quite an unthinking way," he said recently. "Now I'm not, but I am conscious of a space where...