Word: consigned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effective President -- is going to require an even more disciplined devotion to competence over ideology. For although Bush has said, "We're coming in to build on the proud accomplishments of the past, ((not)) to correct ((its)) ills," a failure to redress the Reagan era's greatest ill could consign this President to political oblivion. Ironically, given his insistence that the key lesson to be learned from Reagan is that a successful President takes "a principled position and stays with it," Bush's own success may depend on yet another 180 degrees turn: the far more difficult task of abandoning...
...song like a serious artist." In fact, when Lennon could harness his wit and rage within commercial demands, he simply blew away restraints and claimed new territory for the popular imagination. What, then, compelled him to destroy the most successful performing group on earth? Why did he consign his fate to a woman who would later ask friends, "How can that oaf be so successful when I am so much more talented and educated?" Goldman provides reams of material but few answers. The best he can come up with is Lennon's unhappy motherless childhood. That may explain neurosis...
...soon to consign AMC to the corporate scrap heap. Its rugged if hardly racy Jeep Cherokee line continues to grow in popularity. Moreover, the company has built a modern $340 million plant near Toronto that will turn out spiffy new models designed to change AMC's reputation as a producer of small, unexciting cars. Says AMC President Joseph Cappy: "We are finally poised for that turnaround we've been talking about for so long...
...something back at the Firm's headquarters. Magnus' operations take him to Vienna, Prague and Washington, where he concludes that "no country was ever easier to spy on . . . no nation so open-hearted with its secrets, so quick to air them, share them, confide them, or consign them too early to the junk heap of planned American obsolescence...
...rules and traditions of the college should be told to seek employment elsewhere. It is time for the Harvard faculty, the "untouchables", to respond. As a matter of fact, it is their obligation to do so. The students should not be bullied into a retreat that will literally consign the entire student body to unnecessary days of drudgery. Steven Maddox...