Word: warmest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more "natural terrain." Baudouine picked a dusty patch 100 yards away, and the high temperatures in Bullhead City were promptly four or five degrees higher. On eight days last month, in fact, television weathermen announced that the town-with temperatures as high as 115° F -was the warmest spot...
...region, where the people are known for holding in their emotions " Indeed, the President rarely seems genuinely comfortable with crowds while campaigning. "He's not a speaker for the masses," notes Harvard University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, a longtime observer of French politics. "He's not exactly the warmest person either." Even on television-where his confidence and lucidity come across best-Giscard cannot shake what many see as a handicap-a quasi-aristocratic background, suggested by the "d'Estaing" suffix borrowed from an extinct noble family. "Two centuries after the revolution, the French still...
Despite the heavy demands of their concert and recording schedules, as well as their individual solo and teaching careers, Cohen, Greenhouse and Pressler remain the warmest and most personable of men. After their Harvard appearances, which are sponsored by the Winthrop House Music Society, the trio often holds a reception for students at Winthrop. Usually the liveliest people there, they sip coffee, greet fans, and chat with students as naturally and with as much real interest as they demonstrate on stage. As Tom Johnson, director of the Winthrop concert series, puts it, "These guys are incredible! They catch a plane...
...matter that the President, despite the warmest welcome that any Chief Executive has received from Congress in recent years, read parts of his speech too fast. No matter that the speech itself, studded with statistics, lacked Reagan's unique verbal tang. The potential, far-reaching importance of what he offered, of what he urged the legislators to accept and enact, was there. His program was detailed in a 281-page volume called America 's New Beginning: A Program for Economic Recovery, which Congress had already received. The numbers alone were startling enough: $467 billion less federal spending, combined...
Their influence has declined in the past 20 years, while the power of sociologists, economists and political scientists has ris en. The author's warmest portrait of success is revealing. It is of Wallace Stevens, a leading American poet who was also a vice president of an insurance company...