Word: tranquility
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...whole controversy now seems a little dated, credit Reagan's success in changing the political atmosphere. He has created a tranquil public acceptance of his presidency much like Eisenhower's, while proposing reforms as potentially sweeping as Roosevelt's. This change conditions the behavior of both the right wing and the press. Right-wingers used to argue that Reagan's popularity proved the victory of their ideology. Consequently, any press questioning of Reagan's program was "out of step with the rest of America," and any compromise by Reagan was the fault of pragmatists on his staff who would...
...then, in such a tranquil atmosphere are so many conservatives unhappy with the national news media? Gans invokes an old sociological concept called surveillance. It holds that people keep up with the news partly "to learn about threatening events, problems, and people in the larger society that could eventually hurt them personally." Conservatives think journalists do not pay enough attention to the surveillance of problems they consider important: "the activities of domestic Communists, secular humanists, and others whom they believe to be threatening America." Radicals and liberals have similar, though less publicized, discontents, says Gans. Radicals think the press does...
...Nowadays Wynn hopes to shrink gambling to less than 45% of the overall take at his hotels; he says he would remove it from his tranquil new oasis entirely if he could. "I do need the cash flow from the casino to justify the things I do," says Wynn. "I wouldn't want to dumb down my hotel-not at this point in my life. How many guys get to try to build the best hotel in the world...
Nowadays Wynn hopes to shrink gambling to less than 45% of the overall take at his hotels; he says he would remove it from his tranquil new oasis entirely if he could. "I do need the cash flow from the casino to justify the things I do," says Wynn. "I wouldn't want to dumb down my hotel--not at this point in my life. How many guys get to try to build the best hotel in the world...
...most important moment in Geneva was likely to have been the most personal and private one. On Tuesday morning at 10:05, shortly after meeting for the first time, Reagan and Gorbachev were scheduled to excuse themselves from the ceremonial opening din and sit down together in a tranquil room in the villa Fleur d'Eau with only their interpreters. No battalions of advisers, no swarms of reporters. Alone in the room with just their wits and their heavy sense of responsibility. That is when, in all likelihood, the full wonder of the moment will have most powerfully gripped them...