Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...current condition of our politics, of course, it's hard to make judgments from afar even about personality, let alone about character. Everything is so contrived. If that charming business a while back about hating broccoli wasn't the result of extensive focus-group testing, it might as well have been. Bush is smart enough to know it would play well. And we do know that he exaggerates things, like his love of country music. (The Bushes actually also listen to classical in the White House.) Ironically, Bush wins points for genuineness, even with cynics like me, for the hints...
...thing, Bush's facile ability and his willingness to switch off his niceness when convenient make you wonder how genuine it is. No one would have accused him of excessive niceness during the 1988 campaign, when he was more concerned with appearing tough. A really nice person doesn't stop being nice when it's inconvenient. More recently, about the budget deficit, there was this classic Bushism: "People understand that Congress bears a greater responsibility for this. But I'm not trying to assign blame." He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark...
Picture this. A small, comfortable apartment in Los Angeles. Three people, all trying to work, trying to write and make music, but not necessarily together. In the living room: David Baerwald and David Ricketts, trying to come up with an appropriate follow-up to Boomtown. Pressure enough right there; not only the normal, friendly collaborative pressure but the burden of trying to equal or even top one of the best albums of the 1980s. In the bedroom: Toni Childs, who was living with Ricketts and laboring over her own lyrics besides...
...foreign markets will limit the company's overseas growth, such talk hardly discourages Masato. He predicts that Mizuno's sales in Japan will climb more than 100%, to $2.6 billion, by 2001, while foreign revenues will grow tenfold, to about $650 million. At the same time, Masato wants to make Mizuno goods the worldwide standard for quality just as his grandfather Rihachi made Mizuno baseballs the standard in Japan. It was Rihachi who decreed that when an official Japanese ball was dropped from a height of 16 1/2 ft., it had to bounce 4 1/2 ft. That just happened...
...decode information from maps, to use an atlas, read latitude and longitude." The class accomplishes this in an atmosphere of controlled chaos. Students throw questions at one another as they pore over their material. "Does Tasmania belong to Australia?" shouts one student. "Since Greenland belongs to Denmark, does that make Copenhagen its capital?" asks another of no one in particular...