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Of course, some presidential travel is necessary. Considerable good comes from personal contact between heads of state. But travel for travel's sake, the current malady, is a waste and a danger. We still wonder if Nikita Khrushchev's sizing up of John Kennedy, whose back was throbbing from an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency Motion Sickness | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

What appeals so strongly about Higgins' fiction may be that he lets the reader overhear men sizing up other men, judging them, often not gently. (Mostly men, yes; his women characters tend to be not much more than complications in the lives of their menfolk.) In The Progress of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man with the Golden Ear | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

Unable to get a fix on Souter from that sparse record, activists from both sides of the political spectrum began combing through what little was known about his personal life in search of evidence to either calm their fears or justify their suspicions. Some wondered if the 50-year-old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blank Slate | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

As international takeover artists, the British leave everybody in the dust. Sizing up overseas opportunities is a talent that seems to come naturally to British businessmen, for whom Canada is often closer than Calais. British companies typically invest $1 on acquisitions abroad for every $3 they spend at home, an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World of Business: The New Elizabethans | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

"It's a matter of learning enough and sizing up the situation well enough to know how to be constructive and creative and effective."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

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