Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urge to explain, explicate, examine, describe, capture, evoke, demythify, demystify, dismantle and put together again a university has obsessed others, with unspectacular results. Recognizing this vacuum, a handful of students has taken it upon itself to present the machinery inside the Harvard robot. Humorously. Entertainingly. Unfrivolously...
...enough simply to "manage," examining each set of choices in a philosophical vacuum. The President's central principles must be there, they must be consistent, and they must be clearly seen. His own staff, his Administration, Congress, the press and public all need from him a clear indication of what he considers important; of his values, his priorities, and the directions in which he seeks to lead the nation and the world. Whether his direction is right or wrong, it is essential to the debate that it be visible, and that it bear a logical relationship to his other...
Like nature, power abhors a vacuum. If a President fails to exercise power effectively, others are going to exercise it in his stead; and if America fails to exercise it effectively, other nations are going to exercise it in our stead. In the '80s, the alternative to the effective exercise of American power is the unchecked exercise of Soviet power...
...time, McKee's solution was John Anderson. "I have admiration for him. He's the best candidate. He's refreshing and outspoken." Like others who have drifted away from Anderson, however, McKee is afraid that the independent cannot win. Says he: "If I was in a vacuum, if I didn't know about the polls, I'd go ahead and vote for him. But I feel so strongly that I want to lock Carter out, that if I have to vote for Reagan, that's what...
...Jesse Jackson, black activist: "Mr. Reagan's approach to foreign policy is that of a macho man. And John Anderson is a vacuum cleaner to suck up the frustrated, the purist and the self-righteous...