Word: warms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...youthful grace and charm, is now displaying neither. The effortless way he assumed leadership at Andover and Yale has vanished. By contrast, Dukakis, who lacked Bush's early ease, is having some success using the determination from his early days to master the political art of appearing warm...
...simple. No matter what is growing out back, whether catnip, horehound and fleabane, or chubby cabbages and Creeping figs, or heirloom roses and masses of delicate ranunculus, the garden will eventually become all consuming, of time, money, concentration and passion. Around the time that new gardeners are feeling most warm and gratified with their endeavors, delighted with the fresh vegetables and thrilled with the view from the porch, they also discover the risks involved. "A garden," warned Ralph Waldo Emerson, "is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw...
...take me by for a look, and when we went there we had that little walk. I was very impressed by the size and expanse of the square. And there were several groups of people out there, and we stopped to talk with them. Here, too, they were so warm and enthusiastic, just like all the others I had met in the city...
...wrong with corporate America: merger mania, for one thing. He excoriates raiders and corporate chiefs who wage expensive takeover battles, leaving companies bloodied and indebted. He also faults political leaders for shortsighted partisanship: "All we do is finger-point." He particularly chides President Reagan, whom he describes as a "warm and wonderful human being," but "totally incapable of focusing in on any issue...
Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo may have expected a warm welcome home last week as he returned from a Far Eastern tour. Instead, he abruptly learned that he had been dismissed by President Zia ul-haq, who also sacked Junejo's 33- member Cabinet and dissolved the 237-seat National Assembly...