Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that things are much better at the White House itself. After three months on the job, chief of staff Sam Skinner has emerged as a restless, one- minute manager who cannot stay focused on a subject for long. Skinner's vaunted personnel reorganization has so far only added extra bodies to the already bloated operation left by his predecessor John Sununu. When Skinner released a plan two weeks ago to funnel all policy issues through a single West Wing committee, one top official cracked, "It's perfect. After three years, we finally get a policymaking body, but we have...
What Bush does not seem to realize is that voters are far more restless, irritable and discontent in March 1992 than they were four years ago. They may judge a President with a lackluster three-year domestic record more harshly than they judged a two-term Vice President who had left few footprints. Late last week in Miami, before he cut short a political swing through the South to return to the White House, Bush staked his claim to a second term with these words: "I believe the next five years are just too important to entrust to the inexperienced...
...long corridors are eerily silent; the guards seem listless. The nameplates on most doors have been removed. Many rooms are not just empty; they seem abandoned. Boris Yeltsin has moved in, but a number of his advisers have stayed behind at the Russian Parliament to massage legislators who are restless -- if not rebellious -- over the price their constituents are paying for reform...
Brown, the turtlenecked Pied Piper for the young and the restless, has few short-term worries. His 800-number fund raising brings in enough cash to fuel his no-frills caravan, his now modulated debate style attracts anti- Establishment votes, and he knows the race ends on June 2 on his home turf of California. In his inimitable way, Brown may have found the perfect low- overhead formula, not for the nomination, but to endure as the last challenger to the presumptive nominee...
...Nair grew restless. "I was tired of waiting for things to happen," she says, referring to the serendipitous nature of the documentary film process. "I wanted to make them happen." Working with an idea in 1983 for a documentary about Bombay street kids, she decided instead to turn their stories into a feature film. Salaam Bombay!, made on a $900,000 budget, was a commercial as well as a critical success; Nair used part of the profits to provide educational, medical and vocational services for street children...