Word: top
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Powell's West Wing experience that took him over the top. Aided by his teddy-bear good looks, Powell projected a relaxed sociability among Reagan-Bush Republicans as effectively as he has done through his 31 years of Army service. But he was also able to slip seamlessly into a cool, no-nonsense demeanor when needed. Subordinates learn not to waste words in meetings he chairs. "Powell has many of the qualities that Bush admires," said a White House aide. "He's a team player, highly capable but modest. And he knows how Government works from the inside...
...news events, interspersed with inane chatter about "cultural" developments like disco and the pet rock phenomenon, are related with an incredible degree of shallowness. It's as if the two authors had pretended that USA Today had been around for the last 20 years, and compressed each year's top stories into bite size, retrospective nuggets...
Barker is a 40ish Harvard professor who has become a brilliant force in the world of psychology. Nurtured by the top psychologist in the department since his graduate school days, Barker follows in his mentor's footsteps by discarding Freud's psychoanalytic theories in favor of a number-crunching, laboratorystudy approach to psychology...
...poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout you blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least...
...facing the classic problem of men at the top: whether to heed the heart or the head. So far, he has taken the cerebral approach. That has pleased many leaders, who have praised the President for "the courage of restraint." But at home Bush heard Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Arlen Specter call the U.S. response "pitiful...