Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always, the President is detached from the details of policy and reluctant to crack heads. As a result, Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger continue to battle inconclusively about early deployment of SDI while some Cabinet members whisper, unavailingly but unrestrainedly, about a palace revolt against Chief of Staff Donald Regan. One White House official compares the President's role in this bickering to a "king in his declining years when all the barons start jockeying...
...word, which spread quickly through the magazine's offices on Manhattan's West 43rd Street, ignited a revolt among staffers that is likely to reverberate for months. Never mind that Gottlieb is considered a brilliant editor, held in high esteem by authors as disparate as Joseph Heller and Doris Lessing, as well as by a number of New Yorker writers who are published by Knopf. The shabby manner in which Shawn was treated and the fact that an outsider was chosen over his objection infuriated staffers. "There was an appearance of violence and crudity about what Newhouse did," complained...
...declared that he will set a date later this year for a general election for the country's 2.3 million white voters. Political analysts saw the move as an attempt by Botha to win a new mandate for the ruling National Party in the face of the mounting black revolt and international isolation. In the eyes of Botha's right-wing constituents especially, get-tough measures like the school regulations are precisely what is needed to bring South Africa's racial unrest under control...
Aquino's revolution with a human face was no less a triumph for women the world over. The person known as the "Mother of the Nation" managed to lead a revolt and rule a republic without ever relinquishing her buoyant calm or her gift for making politics and humanity companionable. In a nation dominated for decades by a militant brand of macho politics, she conquered with tranquillity and grace...
...Enrile and Ramos staged their revolt in Manila, Cory, 350 miles away in Cebu, at first lay low in a Carmelite monastery. But as the revolution continued, she hurried back to Manila, ready to take charge. While her advisers collapsed in exhaustion around her suburban bungalow and a gunfight continued less than a block away, the President-elect serenely announced that she planned to take a shower and get changed. Then she had herself driven to her inauguration in her white Chevrolet van, stopping at every red light...