Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call for an era of bipartisanship and high ethical standards: if everyone in power would just get along with everyone else in power, all would be well. A 51% federal salary increase would quietly take effect, the Cabinet could be swiftly and pleasantly confirmed, sleaze would disappear in a warm glow of mutual trust. If everyone would make the same rosy economic assumptions, money would be found to pay for the savings and loan cleanup just unveiled and the budget just proposed...
...merely the interlude before the drum rolls heralding the formal presentation of his legislative program. White House aides talked confidently of the President's "action agenda." Bush had been predicting publicly that Congress would not like his courageous proposals, even as he artfully wooed legislators to ensure a warm reception. By the time the new President made his triumphal entrance into the House chamber, beaming and backslapping like a joyful alum at a Yale reunion, the stage was set for the programmatic speech that would boldly launch the Bush Administration...
...faculty members--many of whom on Thursday had sharply criticized the selection--gave Clark a "warm and sustained round of applause," Bok said in an interview yesterday...
...faculty meeting yesterday afternoon, professors gave Clark a "very warm and sustained round of applause," Bok said. While there were reportedly one or two holdouts who greeted the annoucement with indifference, Bok said he expected the controversy would be short-lived...
...conversations so far in Canada, Iceland, Britain, West Germany, Denmark and Norway have been "warm, personal and professional," said the U.S. official, who requested anonymity. "It's going very, very well...