Word: reasonable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Baker arrived as planned at Bush headquarters after the G.O.P. convention, he confronted problems far less dire than those that would later bedevil Sasso. One reason: as Tutwiler points out, the top Bush handlers have all fought side by side before. Until Baker took over, this teamwork was undermined by the lack of anyone in firm control of the campaign. Atwater had nominal top authority as campaign manager, but Bush insisted that all decisions be made by consensus. The result was the kind of paralyzing chaos that allowed the Dan Quayle nomination to bring the campaign to the brink...
...least part of the reason for the muted response is that NBC was doing a sober, workmanlike job of news coverage at a happening that is not best appreciated as a news event. NBC's telecasts lacked juice. They dampened emotions by highlighting what often proved to be the wrong events; they cut away at the wrong moments; they stinted most medal ceremonies. The dominant, brooding presence was anchor Bryant Gumbel, on loan from Today. He was as smooth and knowledgable as usual, but with gravity better suited to a Moscow summit. NBC has plenty of on-air talent, including...
...corporate efforts to help families are only beginning to gain momentum, and many working parents still face enormous difficulties. For that reason, family issues are among the hottest topics of political debate in this election year. Congress is considering more than 100 child-care bills, including the so-called ABC (Act for Better Child Care) bill. Backed by Michael Dukakis but opposed by the Reagan Administration, the measure would establish a $2.5 billion program of child-care grants to the states and would set federal standards for day-care facilities. Vice President George Bush has proposed an alternative approach...
Traditionally, giving birth has been the common reason for taking a family leave. More than half of U.S. firms offer some form of maternity leave. But a growing number of companies are broadening the policy to give fathers parental leave or to let workers have time off to care for sick children or parents. Southern New England Telephone guarantees the employee's job for up to six months of unpaid parental leave. Mike Liquori, 34, a customer-service representative, took a four-month leave starting last October to care for his infant son Luke after his wife's maternity leave...
...foreign official. But to suggest that a maritime salutation could set in motion events that altered the world would seem to require a well-stocked imagination and a keen dramatic instinct. Readers of The Guns of August (1962), The Proud Tower (1966) and A Distant Mirror (1978) have good reason to know that Barbara Tuchman possesses both in abundance. Yet she has never reduced history to simple causes and effects. Her books resemble jigsaw puzzles: start anywhere with any fragment and one can eventually assemble the whole...