Word: reininger
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To be sure, nobody survives in the rough-and-tumble of White House politics-especially of the Nixon White House-without a good measure of ruthlessness. Haig was implacable in squeezing to the sidelines potential competitors for my attention. At the same time, I am sure, he was not above...
The main threat to growth will be the daunting cost of borrowing money. Said Eckstein: "Interest rates are a big cloud over the economy. We won't have a normal recovery." Though the slump has dampened business demand for credit, the prime rate that banks levy on corporate customers...
In the end, Solidarity's radical factions won the day. The commission declared that Walesa's negotiations had been a "positive step," but it refused to help in reining in the strikers. Then the commission set a three-month deadline for success in the forthcoming negotiations with Jaruzelski...
The standard of modesty evolved out of concerns deeper than ephemeral questions of style and etiquette. The discipline of reining in one's tendency to boast is, after all, merely part of the larger discipline of keeping the ego in check. And why should anyone wish to do that...
The presence of this obsessive, comforting vision links Dad to Birdy (1979), Wharton's acclaimed first novel about an adolescent boy who wants to become a canary and fly. But Dad is a rather more tenuous success than its predecessor. For one thing, it dissipates some of its power...