Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expired, a victim of wrangling among the Senate, the House and President Reagan over how much more should be dedicated to the cause and who should pay the bill. During its existence, the Superfund dribbled away most of its money on a mismanaged effort that served only to reveal the almost unimaginable enormity of the task ahead. Though Congress is likely to reach an agreement by next month on a new infusion of money, anywhere from $10 billion over five years (the House proposal) to $5.3 billion (the Reagan Administration's figure), for now the once ambitious program lingers...
...Republican majority, much as Franklin D. Roosevelt had done for the Democrats in the early days of the New Deal. A survey conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White suggests that nothing quite that epochal has occurred in the wake of the Reagan victory.* But the poll did reveal a continuation of a decade-long trend of growing voter identification with the G.O.P. at the expense of the Democratic Party, as well as some more recent Republican gains in voter + confidence in the handling of crucial economic and foreign policy issues...
Both Apple and Jobs had hoped to avoid a suit, but a proposed settlement collapsed after days of negotiation. Neither side will reveal precisely what caused the final break. Jobs states that he had agreed not to solicit any more Apple employees for a year and to refrain for six months from hiring any who approached...
...television clips are most effective because they reveal Kerouac's conservative character, both politically and socially. A scene from Buckley's Firing Line is particularly tragic. With merciless interviewing poise, Buckley casually questions the seriousness of Kerouac's writing and his tenuous connecting of religion and literature. Kerouac, obviously very drunk, answers Buckley on the air with a string of babblings on Buddhism. Ultimately, Kerouac makes a fool of himself, at the same time highlighting his own inability to fit in with the chic literati...
...fact, the awesome responsibilities of being a fabulously successful, outrageously wealthy and widely worshipped rock star reveal themselves on every page of Pete's strange book...