Word: typed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhortation rather than specific proposals. For example, a plan to insure the elderly against the expense of catastrophic illness is supposed to be a cornerstone of his 1987 legislative program. Yet so far the President has been unwilling or unable to resolve a dispute within his Administration on what type of plan to propose...
Winning votes for any type of foreign assistance is one of the toughest jobs in Washington. With domestic social programs tightly curtailed by Gramm-Rudman spending limits, few Congressmen can politically afford to support more overseas aid. Thus while the U.S. remains the world's largest single source of foreign giving, its contribution is the smallest among major industrial nations when measured as a fraction of gross national product...
...dancers, work his way. Several departments have changed hands. Martins does all the casting, not to everyone's approval. He envisions an ideal in which every dancer can take every part, and there are those who think that in pursuing this goal he too often casts against type...
...singular type to be understood in different ways by different people--like "a glass apple." This is the novel where Roth puts it all together and resolves the tension in his life that probably led him to write in the first place...
...like to watch movies at night after dinner now that I can't get out much." Failing eyesight, severe arthritis and other infirmities are about the only limitations she accepts, and then only because she must. It is hard to reconcile the hands so stiff they can no longer type and the slow movement across the room with the gleam of the gray-green eyes, the brightly lipsticked smile, the clear voice and, most of all, the feisty opinions...