Word: idealization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...million" in two Hungarian publications and is making a profit, he will pursue print ventures only if he can find partners. "Nothing on our own," he vows. "You don't get in in a big way, because there is no money there and the situation is totally competitive." The ideal newspaper investment, he says, is "the security of a monopoly." He has the same goal in television. Having attained it after a fashion in Britain, he may yet prove that the Sky is the limit...
...Bush the ideal President to articulate such an ambiguous policy. It's hard to tell when he's being clever and when he's plain inarticulate. Bush, says one White House aide, "figures people should leave him alone to do what he decides is best. His attitude is 'This is very complicated. You just wouldn't understand.' " An Administration official adds that whether the White House on any given day stresses its hopes for peace or its willingness to fight sometimes "has been determined by the President's mood or the questions he gets...
...egalitarian ideal, a society with more opportunities for those who wish to practice medicine, with cheaper health care for all and with a smaller gap between the incomes of doctors and the incomes of most other people (including nurses) would surely be more desirable than a society like the one we have now, except that 12% of the doctors are black and half are women...
...would like to express my interest in the position of Harvard President which you advertised in the Times. I believe Harvard would be an ideal place for me to consider some of the deeper questions. For instance, is there a higher being in the universe? And, if so, is he the type who knows about cheeses and buys sports coats off the rack...
John J. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is an almost too perfect example of the new American male, that improbable beau ideal who has been created out of recent feminist fantasies and the failure of certain old-fashioned masculine dreams...