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...federal elections that must be held no later than next March. But his retirement nonetheless took the nation by surprise. During nearly 16 years in office, the longest tenure of any contemporary Western leader, Trudeau has become a national institution, whose glitter has given normally staid Canada a certain image of political...
...Beissinger said that Romanov was the most likely choice because he is the most "staid and conservative" of the three possible presidents. Chemenko, at 72, is too old and would constitute "another caretaker government," while Gorbachev at 52, is "too young and would scare conservatives," he said...
Once the bourgeoisie had decided not to talk about what it did, it created a new symbolic language, both verbal and nonverbal, to convey information. Middle-class women no longer got pregnant, for example; they became enceinte, or were "in an interesting condition." Painters and sculptors thrilled staid merchants with luscious nudes fig-leafed with titles like Venus Now Wakes. Manet's Olympia shocked the salon of 1865 not because she was naked but because she looked back at the viewer with the defiant eyes of a thoroughly contemporary Parisian courtesan. On second thought, said Freud...
...breed of money managers shake up once staid pension funds
...hoopla surrounding Volcker's nomination heightened his status as the staid financial community's first superstar. At his congressional confirmation hearing, so many lawmakers, reporters and visitors were eager to hear the chairman that the session had to be moved from the Senate Banking Committee hearing room to the huge Caucus Room, where Senators had once interrogated the Watergate conspirators. Yet despite his power and prestige, Volcker retains his austere personal style. He still lives in a cubbyhole apartment near his office, bums cheap cigars from colleagues and brags about his watch, which looks exactly like...