Word: decking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michigan, McGuane was introduced to the outdoors and a stern Irish work ethic by his father, an auto-parts manufacturer. McGuane early on developed an "adventurous image" of what a writer should be from Horatio Hornblower novels and books about World War II. "I saw myself on the deck of an Amazon steamer or something," he recalls. At Michigan State, McGuane edited a literary journal and shunned the budding hippie drug culture with such conviction that his peers dubbed him the "White Knight...
...point," George Bush said last week by telephone from the White House. "I did it thinking, 'I'll show 'em I really meant it to be a feet-up meeting.' So I put my feet up on one of those round sofas that were bolted to the deck of the Gorky. Gorbachev and I were leaning over toward one another. There were no inhibitions...
...Winners may pay lip-service to equal opportunity, but in reality, they revel in the stacked-deck advantages of starting life as Winners. Competitive admissions to pre-school and the explosion of SAT coaching were strictly '80s phenomena for precisely this reason...
...time George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Malta, there was no longer any pretense that this was to be a meeting where they simply sat back and talked. How do you put your feet up when the deck beneath you is trembling and the winds are howling, in Marsaxlokk Bay and throughout the tattered Soviet empire? This first Bush-Gorbachev summit, which the American President initially proposed as a way to restart the becalmed U.S.-Soviet relationship, was now also the first to take place in the uncertain new world ushered in by the upheavals shaking Eastern Europe...
...been virtually taken hostage in El Salvador--if found guilty in a trial, Casola could face up to 25 years in a Salvadoran prison--a little sympathy, not to say defense, might be appropriate. Instead of this, however, the Bush administration has done everything it can to stack the deck against Casola, and in doing so, has bowed again to the mandates of a repressive government...