Word: thicket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been chairman of the Chloride Group, battery manufacturers, unceremoniously closed down plants and in five years chopped BL's work force from 192,000 to 108,000, prompting union leaders to denounce him as a "bloody Hitler." Using a mixture of threats and bluster, Edwardes cut through a thicket of antiquated factory-floor work habits. Meanwhile, he began to invest heavily in programmable robots and computers to help engineers design and manufacture autos. One result: output has risen in BL's Austin Rover group from 5.9 to 14 cars per worker per year since...
...trying too often to abdicate rather than carefully define its regulatory role, the Administration has given deregulation a bad name. That is unfortunate, because the thicket of Government regulation does indeed need thinning. Even pro-regulation activists concede that there are many outdated or overly stringent rules on the books. But the Reagan Administration's uneven approach has made regulatory reform a political danger zone, to be avoided at least until after the 1984 elections. Concedes a senior White House aide: "Deregulation doesn't have the same priority for us it used to have. The political dividend aren...
...celebrities and surely one of the most mysterious. Part faun, part satyr, he was avidly stalked, not just by gossips and journalists but by artistic, intellectual and political leaders fascinated by his movies. Yet he permitted only the briefest glimpses of his true self as he flitted through the thicket of myth and misinformation he deliberately created as a hiding place. Even his autobiography had almost nothing useful to say about how his genius functioned. It is an appropriate irony that the best record we shall probably ever have of Chaplin's methods comes to us in a series...
...Administration faces another difficult selling job in persuading the rebellious Congress to go along with its policy of overt aid to the government of El Salvador and covert help to opponents of the government in Nicaragua. In this foreign policy thicket, Democratic opposition is the most serious obstacle. Still, even the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted in March to slash in half the $60 million in military aid that Reagan wants to switch from Morocco to El Salvador. The President has also asked for an additional $50 million in military funds for the Salvadoran government. The Senate committee...
Between the catcalls and the wild charges, the Falwell visit produced a pretty sterile debate. The K-School audience's shameful rudeness simply enhanced Falwell's poised image, and the preacher easily glided through the thicket of questions. When he had arguments ready, he used them. When stumped--us he was by a query asking why he opposes abortion but favors the death penalty--he resorted smoothly to his usual vapid rhetoric ("I want everybody to have the benefits of pluralism.") It was, on the whole, a silly evening...