Word: spaciousness
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Despite the long hours that he is putting in at his new job, Yasuhiro Nakasone was relaxed last week in his spartan but spacious office in the 1920s-style official Prime Minister's residence in Tokyo. On the eve of his first meeting with Ronald Reagan, Nakasone, nattily attired in a well-cut gray suit and soft black leather loafers, discussed a wide range of U.S.-Japanese concerns with TIME's Tokyo bureau chief Edwin Reingold. Highlights...
Plunked down sloppily in a chair in his spacious office adjacent to that of former mentor and friend, CEA Chairman Martin S. Feldstein, Summers seems almost out of place--as if he were back in Cambridge leisurely receiving a visitor during office hours. But as the 45-minute interview progresses and the public finance expert is constantly interrupted by a stream of telephone calls or colleagues asking for a quick bit of advice, the outsider is brought back to Summers' real present world of three-page memos, staff meetings, and access to some of the Administration's top policy makers...
...President's political philosophy needs to be earned, hammered out in some detail, tested intellectually and in experience. It is good for the stability of the country that the American center, which is essentially where we want our Presidents to be, is so spacious. But there are drawbacks in this vast and vague consensus; presidential candidates and Presidents can evade the hard work of thinking out policy specifics and confronting the harsh choice between two good things...
...setting. Unlike the grand and spacious Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building, where John and Robert Kennedy had launched their bids for the White House, Room 4232 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building is small and comparatively humble. Packed inside with a slew of Kennedy family members were the usual political retainers and loyal supporters, gathered together for the occasion: not the launching but the scuttling of a presidential bid. Announced Edward Kennedy last week: "I will not be a candidate for President of the United States...
...have stopped looking like railroad cars. Priced from $7,500 to upwards of $80,000, mobile homes now come with pitched roofs, wood siding and such optional amenities as sunken baths, hot tubs and wood-burning fireplaces. Some developers link two or more of these units together to form spacious homes that look at first glance like site-built dwellings...