Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President separately, but quickly realized that Bush prefers -- and benefits from -- live skirmishes. Bush asks questions during the back and forth, takes copious notes on White House pads and often asks lower-level officials for their views. "He doesn't want filters," said a participant. "He actually wants to sit there at the table and listen to Darman fight with Reilly." Darman argued in one meeting that the clean-air proposals were too expensive for the health and safety benefits gained. "For the same amount of money," the Budget Director said, "we can buy everyone in America rubber- soled shoes...
Striking pictures from the region are featured nightly on the evening news. We sit, glued to our television sets, gasping in wonder at the complexities and conflicts of a world so different from ours...
Barker can be--should be--easy to despise. After all, he is the consummate slime. But Bernays does not allow the reader to simply sit back and watch Barker ooze. Instead, she brings you inside his skin, an unpleasant and rather cramped location, but she accomplishes it with much skill and perspective...
...place. The civil rights movement that swept the South a generation ago somehow bypassed Dallas. Now, fueled by population shifts that have made blacks, Hispanics and Asians nearly half the population, the movement has finally arrived. Vows County Commissioner John Wiley Price, a black: "We're not going to sit back and let an Anglo minority continue to control most of the power...
...talks were resumed by the factions -- the country's Vietnamese-backed government, represented by Prime Minister Hun Sen, and a resistance coalition that includes two non-Communist groups under Prince Norodom Sihanouk andnationalist leader Son Sann, as well as the Khmer Rouge -- only after they finally agreed to sit together at this ^ week's conference under the single name Cambodia...