Word: shedding
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Bush's decision to join the Loeb tribute highlights the battle that is already under way for the mantle of Reaganism. For five years Bush has acted as an unabashed cheerleader for Reagan's programs in an effort to shed the moderate taint that can destroy a Republican hopeful these days. Nevertheless, the loyal Vice President is likely to face a strong challenge on the right, notably from New York Congressman Jack Kemp, who missed the dinner...
...apartment dwellers with children, play space is at a premium. A dozen mothers, members of the West Hollywood Munchkins Play Group, convene three days a week in cramped West Hollywood Park. They unlock a wooden shed, pass out toys and warily eye the winos by the shuffleboard court and the gay men seeking casual sex around the shrubs and public toilet. "We complain to the police, and they arrest these perverts in the toilet," Abrams says. "Look, I don't care what they do, but I don't want it in front of my kid. We want a separate children...
...many other areas of "greater responsibility" must Lown and his crowd collect before they shed their mask and own up to their blatantly political orientation? The clear intent of IPPNW--to discredit and change Western nuclear weapons policy--deserves a thorough exposition and labelling, if not by IPPNW itself, then by concerned observers throughout the West. Responsible discussion of what the West should do to prevent nuclear holocaust is not served by dissembling pseudo-experts like Dr. Bernard Lown...
...DEMOCRATS' SOLUTIONS to their deeper problems seem to consist of denial and rhetoric. They wait for the pendulum while talking about the need to: reshape, reassess assumptions, start to rebuild, shed old images, seize opportunities and, not least...
...early days, the U.N. was dominated by the Western powers. But as fading empires shed their colonies in the '60s, the developing world gained a greater voice that the U.S. was often slow to acknowledge. Says former Ambassador (now U.S. Senator) Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "Our biggest failing at the U.N.. . .is that we have never been able to think in terms of political coalitions." In the U.N.'s General Assembly, dubbed a "town meeting of the world" by former Secretary-General Trygve Lie, each nation--from the Seychelles (pop. 65,000) to China (pop. more than 1 billion...