Word: realm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...title is only senior executive vice president, he has set Drexel's tone and direction during the past decade, according to many who deal with the firm. But his yen for control and lack of regard for convention, which served him so well in staking out his new financial realm, may have been what led him to allegedly illegal tactics. Says journalist Connie Bruck, author of the 1988 book on Drexel titled The Predator's Ball: "For years he's been a law unto himself. He has disdain for the way the world works. He figures he's waging...
...place that's only 50 meters from Lamont and 100 meters from Widener is FAS territory," Landes said at the meeting. Many have tacitly accepted the idea that there is a realm of Harvard which should be separate from its academic priorities. Yet, what Landes' remarks point out is that Harvard's first interest is academics not profiteering; when the two come into conflict, the choice should be clear...
Even after Labor Day, when Sasso finally persuaded Dukakis to venture into the realm of neopopulism with powerful talk of the "middle-class squeeze" and "two-job prosperity," the Governor was wont to abandon the topic without warning. This message madness continued until the final weeks, when he seized on the theme "I'm on your side" and decided to ride the populist pony as far as it would go. Still, he could not master the chords of resentment that are a basic component of economic populism...
...Congress "prohibit the president and his subordinates from exercising the president's authority to engage in diplomacy or to exercise covert influence in the realm of external affairs," the department said...
...years. Thompson relies on an episodic structure which, though it does have great moments, doesn't hold the film together well. His trademark of using little moments to wrench the heart is not cohesive. This incoherence, particularly toward the end of the film, pushes over-romanticized events beyond the realm of believability...