Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strong personalities rarely become Cuomo insiders. He deals more comfortably with strength from a distance. Though he engages people easily, he does not easily offer his own trust. It is not by chance that Son Andrew, 28, is his closest political counselor. Preparing for his uphill 1982 race, Cuomo examined a list of 60 prospective campaign managers and rejected them all. Instead, he installed Andrew. It is an odd and intimate partnership. Like no one else, Andrew over the years has learned how to deal with his father's personal force. A skillful manager, Andrew argues politics rather than substance...
...Like the titans he frequently invokes--Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt--he is a man who battles inwardly between passion and reason, between his ambition and his doubts. Some believe that out of this man's head and heart may come the soul of a new Democratic Party, and perhaps the strength to lead it to the White House...
...continues to favor more nuclear plants. The rival Social Democrats, who in the elections will be headed by Johannes Rau, the minister-president of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, want to phase out existing facilities "as soon as is feasible." The ecology- minded Greens have been gaining in strength since Chernobyl, and their demand that the nation's 20 commercial atomic plants be immediately closed seems attuned to the mood of the country; a recent survey found that 69% of those questioned oppose further nuclear expansion...
...other leaders, particularly on the terrorism communique. Now he must gear up for what could be a long, hot summer of battles with lawmakers on tax reform and the budget. In addition, several politically motivated protectionist bills are percolating in Congress this election year, and they could gather strength if the Tokyo talks and their aftermath do not help reduce America's current trade imbalance. Reagan seems ready. When asked about his differences with Congress as he prepared to leave Tokyo, he grinned and said, "Let them just wait until the old man comes home and see what happens...
...young "radicals," we considered ourselves the conscience of the nation. To us, the Viet Nam War was a moral offense, not a question of politics; we reacted to it primarily in moral, rather than political terms. Somehow, by the strength of our youth, the nation would be wrenched from the grip of death, cleansed, made new. A "movement" without politics or program, we were defined largely by our shared lives on the campus--millions of us getting stoned and listening to the Beatles--and by our opposition to the war. Now that war is over, and we inhabit private worlds...