Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presidential homes are quiet stops, far away from the clang of power. They speak volumes with their family artifacts and life patterns etched in furniture, stairways and backyards. New paint sometimes glamorizes the houses too much. The home had not been "quite so shiny" when he lived in it, Reagan confessed. In the end, the memories, evoked by a fragment of wallpaper or a warm corner in the kitchen, are the stuff of such museums...
...Staff James Baker privately berated Feldstein and ordered him to cancel a scheduled appearance over the weekend on ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. The Treasury Secretary denied reports that he had demanded Feldstein be fired, but, Regan admitted, "I urged that differences between us be kept quiet...
...recognizing 1973 as the "year of Europe" for U.S. policy, expressed similar anxieties about an increasingly neutralist Western Europe. Eagleburger has long shared his onetime mentor's views, and has been restating them privately in recent months. His reasons for speaking out now, at a moment of relative quiet in transatlantic relations, may be as much personal as diplomatic. The Under Secretary, at 53, is widely believed to be planning to leave Government service, and may simply want to state his views clearly in his last months...
...stage and in their lives. He can find women, pot or a high-stakes poker game wherever they go. He reminds them all of their lost youths and awakens their unused parental instincts at the moment when most people are gratefully abandoning them. Eventually, without malice, with quiet but unfailing good cheer, he will destroy them...
Student leaders defended the use of a petition to attempt to sway the University. "We used quiet diplomacy for a year, and that's why we had to turn to the students," said Leon M. Metzger, a representative from the Business School. "We're not looking for a political victory, we're looking for a practical solution," he added...