Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard must also make its affirmative action reporting network more effective. Government Professor Martin Kilson argues that a faculty-based cross-departmental mechanism is needed to search for talented Blacks and pressure for their appointment...
...Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, who then ripped into the Administration's policies with curmudgeonly glee. Baker sat calmly, understanding the game being played. Then he raised the possibility that Reagan might ask Japan to pay more for defense provided by the U.S., a deft move in the search for ways to cut American deficits, a huge campaign issue. Next morning he was at a Cabinet breakfast, collecting intelligence on the budget and trade. After that, he jetted to South Carolina to honor a speaking invitation from Republican Strom Thurmond, a locus of Senate power, even though Thurmond...
Despite his reputation as a plodding and phlegmatic diplomat, Secretary of State George Shultz does not lack for energy. His wanderings over the past two weeks in search of a Middle East peace have taken him to Jerusalem, Amman, Damascus, Cairo and London, where Jordan's King Hussein met with him between bouts of dental surgery. After two days of NATO summitry in Brussels, the Shultz shuttle, with Ronald Reagan's blessing, rumbled back to London before heading to the Middle East again. Said an elated senior diplomat aboard Shultz's plane: "It's the only game in town...
Gravitas is a mystery: Who has it? Who does not? American voters search the field of candidates for signs of the magic quality...
...long preliminary stages, the '88 campaign seemed depressing, a drama in wan search of heroes and meanings. Such diminutive choices must mean that the nation itself has grown diminished. The Old Testament, that thunderous text inhabited by nothing less than the gravitas of God, recorded, "There were giants in the earth in those days." Americans now alive remember Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy -- not all giants in any consensus but men of weight and consequence. But history is full of optical illusions...