Word: depth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with his book Legislating Together: The White House and Capitol Hill From Eisenhower to Reagan, published in 1990. The book--which advances a new theory of presidential-congressional interactions--introduces a "tandem institutions" approach to understanding the two branches of Government. Using both statistical analyses and scores of in-depth interviews as evidence for his theory, Peterson forcefully rejects the popular "presidency-centered perspective" that views the president as the only real force in legislation and demonstrates how Congress and the president work together to make policy in the legislative arena...
...when my grandfather lay ill in a sterile hospital room a little over a year ago, I tried to be there for him, standing by the side of his bed for hours and days on end. It was only then that the depth of my grandparents' devotion to each other truly became clear...
...they have more experience in dealing with such technologies. Viewers will not just passively watch television as they do now, but will have an opportunity to "talk back" and participate in quiz shows, order pizza with the TV remote control and pick which news stories they want covered in depth. That requires expertise in switched, or two-way, service, a craft practically invented by the phone companies. GTE's Cerritos cable system offers interactive exchanges between one teacher and students in six different classrooms at two different schools at the same time...
...conversations with Reagan about Poland, Clark says they were usually short. "I don't think I ever had an in-depth, one-on-one, private conversation that existed for more than three minutes with him -- on any subject. That might shock you. We had our own code of communication. I knew where he wanted to go on Poland. And that was to take it to its nth possibilities. The President and Casey and I discussed the situation on the ground in Poland constantly: covert operations; who was doing what, where, why and how; and the chances of success." According...
...There are some scattered individual swimmers who might hurt us," Duncan said, "but we have depth on our side...