Word: approaches
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Kennedy also remains somewhat aloof from his Senate staffers. He almost never goes out with them on social occasions and rarely gets involved in personnel problems. He has a brisk approach to subordinates that he may have inherited from his father. He often tells his staff how the patriarch would have handled a problem. Like Joseph Kennedy, the Senator rarely hands out compliments or credit but is quick to assess blame when something goes wrong. Once he angrily dressed down an aide for not informing his mother that he was going to appear on a TV interview show. After...
...programs with a comprehensive Government insurance plan that would cost an estimated $130 billion a year. He now proposes that employers be required to broaden the coverage they already provide for workers and then-families and that the Government pick up the medical bills of everyone else. Carter's approach is somewhat similar, but he would have the program adopted in steps over five to ten years. Kennedy reckons the cost to the Government in the first year at $28.6 billion more than it now pays for health care; his critics say it could hit $45 billion...
...since both Time and Newsweek wrote on that subject. Baldwin thinks so too. His newest novel, Just Above My Head, scrutinizes almost every possible variation of the black love relationship, homosexual to conjugal to incestuous to fraternal, while simultaneously indulging Baldwin's familiar obsession with the black church. His approach produces an odd melange of eroticism and spiritualism, which seems to alternate between embarrassing explicitness and slightly cloying romanticism. However, the book as a whole testifies to the author's considerable talent as chronicler of several decades of Afro-American cultural growth and change...
...peaceful approach is in sharp contrast to the Seabrook occupation attempt three weeks ago, when demonstrators with wire-cutters were repelled by Mace-and-tear-gas-wielding police and national guard...
...government's failure to respond quickly to the home heating oil crisis dramatically points up the dangers of a piecemeal approach to the broader energy crisis. In addition to a comprehensive plan to ease the crisis on the supply side of the energy equation, immediate attention must be paid to easing American demand...