Word: letting
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...controversy. As Assistant Secretary in Lyndon Johnson's Labor Department, he kicked up a fuss by issuing a hotly disputed report on female- headed black families. Five years later, as Richard Nixon's adviser on domestic policy, he urged "benign neglect" on racial issues, meaning that the Administration should let racial controversy cool before launching new civil rights initiatives. In the case of Social Security, Moynihan admits that he was out to attract notice through the political equivalent of hitting Congress over the head with a two-by-four. Says he: "You have to get their attention...
...election rally before 2,000 people wearing white headbands marked VICTORY. Thanking them for their longtime support, he said, "I have put all my might into working for this town, but there's still a lot left to do." Then he suggested who might do it: "Please let Kenji work with you to carry that out." The elder Kosaka was campaigning for his son in hopes of continuing a family tradition. Three generations of the Kosaka clan have controlled the mountainous Nagano district, north of Tokyo...
There was no need to ask. As the Kremlin emissaries filed onto the stage, the answer was written all over their faces. The normally dour Lukyanov let a grin slip. The balding and bespectacled Yakovlev looked like a schoolboy who had just received straight A's. After praising the plenum as a "major step . . . away from an authoritarian-bureaucr atic model of socialism toward a democratic society that has opted for socialism," Yakovlev was asked how the meeting had affected Gorbachev's position. A smile, then the reply: "Very, very positively...
...presidential structure was born out of Gorbachev's personality . . . I would vote for Gorbachev with the assurance that he would be elected." But would Gorbachev run for the office as a Communist? Asked that question during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, Gorbachev responded, "Let's wait...
...museums for children across the U.S., kids like learning with hands-on, climb-on exhibits that let them explore everything from coal mines to taste buds...