Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truism of Harvard that when spring comes, protesters emerge from their winter hibernations to fill the Yard with the sounds of opposition. And for the past 17 years, supporters of a clerical workers union have joined the spring ritual in their efforts to gain administrative recognition...
...capital of Florida.) But we must be wary of a 600-page list of information with an implicit message that says "You must read me." Perhaps knowledge is power, but is that knowledge confined to the superficial identifications E.D. Hirsch finds important? We should keep in mind another educational truism: "A little learning can be a dangerous thing...
Such appointments illustrate a truism pithily expressed by the counsel to Bush's transition team, C. Boyden Gray: "Personnel is policy." One outfit that has learned that lesson well is the Heritage Foundation, which last week deposited a ten-foot stack of resumes of some 2,500 would-be Bush appointees at the offices of the transition team. Sighed an already overloaded transition personnel director Chase Untermeyer: "What a wonderful gift...
...counterpart to him in the Democratic Party. Sasso owes his authority to his personal bonds with Dukakis; Baker has managed the political fortunes of two Republican Presidents, and directed Bush's 1980 primary campaign. Baker, in fact, represents the rare towering figure who is an exception to the political truism that power depends on physical access to the candidate. Even more than Sasso, Baker has laid down the dictum that almost all decisions are made at headquarters, not in the fuselage of Air Force...
...become a melancholy truism that drugs have penetrated every segment of American society. Including the White House? Yes, presidential aides confirmed last week: two National Security Council clerks have been fired and three uniformed Secret Service guards suspended because of alleged drug use. Apparently it occurred off the job; Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said there had been no use or sale of drugs on the White House grounds and no breaches of security...