Word: relished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community of which it is a part. The Crimson of 4/16 reports that the city may hike water and sewerage rates for the University--a necessary step given the drastic effect of Propostition 2 1/2 on the Cambridge budget, but a step which the city council must relish taking. Why? Because time and again Harvard officials have shown their lack of consideration for the non-Harvard-affiliated people who deal with the University on a daily basis...
...there are great drawbacks to isolating a President from the people he must serve. Presidents, like most U.S. politicians, relish contact with crowds; indeed, they may come to rely on that kind of interaction to keep them going in so grueling a job. Ronald Reagan has already demonstrated his fondness for pausing and responding to shouted cries...
...those outside the press corps. In twelve short weeks on the job, he had succeeded, despite the difficulties inherent in his work, in winning both the respect and the affection of the press. Brady, called "the Bear" because, well, he looks a bit like one, has a broad relish for life beyond politics. That enthusiasm embraces the hapless Chicago Cubs, gourmet cooking and, of course, his wife Sarah, whom he calls "Raccoon" because, well, he thinks she looks like...
...kind or another, was surprised at how difficult it was to establish himself as this nation's chief foreign policy spokesman. So Haig did what a lot of others before him have done. He began to mutter, and then to say outright, that he did not really relish the headaches and the humiliations and maybe he ought to walk out the door...
...reception from the Senate Armed Services Committee as he outlined what he called "the second half of the Administration's program to revitalize America." The man who earned a reputation as "Cap the Knife" for his stingy ways as Richard Nixon's Budget Director seemed now to relish his role as a generous dispenser of military goodies...