Word: roles
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What arguements on the subject have so far overlooked is the role that the public has played in the unravelling of the Hart scandal. Ultimately, both the press and the candidates that it covers are answerable to a public with very definite ideas of what is acceptable and what is not. One may argue that the private behavior of a political candidate is immaterial to his public performance in office. Yet the candidates themselves use their private lives as selling points in glossy TV ads featuring their homes and families. So long as the public remains interested in candidates' characters...
Gaudio and Valli are always looking for new ways to fill their joint coffer. Valli, for example, is trying to launch an acting career. He made a guest appearance on Miami Vice last year and has a major role in an upcoming film comedy called Dirty Laundry. Whatever directions Gaudio and Valli take, they have no thought of breaking their deal. Says Gaudio: "That would be like telling your brother that he couldn't come to dinner anymore. We're family...
...pictures of the materials with electron microscopes, pulsed beams of neutrons, X rays and ultrasound. A team of Bell Labs and Arizona State scientists has produced electron-microscope photographs that show defects in the compound's crystalline structure. Says Team Leader Abbas Ourmazd: "We don't quite understand what role the defects play, but it raises some provocative questions. Is it the perfect material that is superconducting? Or is it the defects? If it turns out that it is the defects, then we will want to control them and increase their density and put them in intentionally...
...Administration has long been pulled in different directions over its trade policy toward Japan. While State Department and National Security Council officials stress Nakasone's role as a faithful ally, the Commerce Department and U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter want to persuade Japan to open its markets more to American goods. In recent weeks the Administration has been using a double-edged strategy of showing understanding for Japan but pressuring the Japanese to do better...
...rule of law" that Congress plans to probe goes far beyond the unhinged arms-for-hostages deals with Iran and the siphoning of profits to the Nicaraguan contras, which formed the focus of the Tower board's report in February. Instead, a central issue this time will be the role Administration officials played in pursuing a secret and possibly illegal foreign policy by using a shady cadre of private and semiprivate operatives to supply military aid to the contras when such aid was restricted by Congress...