Word: boundless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anka Muhlstein, a Parisian who has written about Proust and Queen Victoria, gives a vivid account of the Rothschild empire, the brothers' enormous shrewdness and energy, their speculations and boundless reserves of money, their private "code" for sensitive business letters, and their swift couriers...
...rulers have reigned with more imperial assurance and panache. A charmer, a demagogue and a despot with an implacable will to power, Haile Selassie had contrived for 44 years to present himself to the world as an enlightened monarch and a forward-looking statesman while his subjects remained in boundless poverty and ignorance...
...again. As the book's title implies, Barrett sees Reagan as intuitive, at times impulsive. He discerns shortcomings even in the man's virtues: the President's belief in personal charity obstructs his understanding of the need for Government-run social justice programs; his boundless optimism can make him unable to hear, let alone accept, bad news on budget deficits. Though Barrett insists that Reagan is complex, the book portrays a man whose views are based largely on personal experience and whose approach to issues can be disarmingly simple: in dealing with the Soviets, for example, Reagan...
...even as the lights are dimming in some old-line industries, technology is spawning boundless opportunities in such esoteric fields as microelectronics, lasers, fiber optics and genetic engineering. In six years Apple, a leading manufacturer of personal computers, has evolved from a two-man operation in a garage to a corporation employing more than 4,000 people. Last year it ranked 411 on the FORTUNE 500; no company had ever gone from a start-up to the Fortune list in so short a period...
...wrote Buckley, was a "hectic idealism." He dressed in windbreakers and slept in his clothes, "always on the go, a kind of hobo of lost causes." With his boundless energy, said Kennedy in 1980, and "his papers, his clothes, and seemingly his whole life jammed into briefcases, envelopes, and satchels--all of it carried with him everywhere--he was a portable and powerful lobby...