Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turning power over to the states. Ford's team jumped on it, and the uproar helped drive the winning margin to Ford. So three years later, Reagan, by then the undisputed G.O.P. front runner, spent the summer of 1979 holed up at his California ranch because Sears didn't want to risk trotting him out. Even after Reagan declared his candidacy, in November, he ducked debates with rivals, who howled that no one knew where he stood. Only after he lost the Iowa caucuses did he oust Sears and join the fray...
Bush is too smart to chase Gore down some policy rabbit hole. Instead, he'll trump him with vision--if he can find one. "The public's attention is with him," says Sears. "Does he have something to say? People want to hear two or three simple, powerful ideas. Maybe he can get elected without that, but to exercise real power as President, he's got to have it." And that's the true lesson of Reagan...
...want the symbols and traditions of Radcliffe College to remain and flourish wherever it seems reasonable and possible for them," he said...
...reactions to the phrase "thy sons" range from complete acceptance to indifference to outrage. So why is my reaction somewhere between the first two? As a woman, I should embrace the politically correct change. After all, the Harvard that sang only of its sons is one that didn't want me in its lecture halls or libraries. It's very different now, of course, but why would I want to keep these sexist lyrics in "Fair Harvard?" Why do I possess this seemingly perverse loyalty to such an otherwise inconsequential phrase? I know Gilman was not thinking of Radcliffe women...
...proud of the fact that Harvard was once all male, or that non-white males weren't always included as sons? No, I am not. There will always be elements of the past we would never want to celebrate, but it is impossible to change the reality of it. However, I am not celebrating historic injustices when I choose the old lyrics over the new ones. I am acknowledging the new Harvard, the one that considers me to be one of its sons, just as I see myself as part of its grand and glorious tradition...