Word: nascent
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This dose of reality comes with Ronald Reagan still President and the Inauguration two months away. Yet Bush and his nascent team are already being held responsible for the direction of a debt-ridden economy. Bush moved + quickly, while stressing continuity: after announcing on the day after his election that his close friend James Baker would be Secretary of State, he tapped Nicholas Brady to remain as Treasury Secretary. Bush promised to name the rest of his economic team promptly and hold budget talks with congressional leaders before his Inauguration; he started Friday by having lunch with House Speaker...
...Wieland Wagner, Wolfgang's late brother, gave tradition a kick in the lederhosen with his spare, psychologically penetrating productions of the 1950s and '60s. In 1976 French Enfant Terrible Patrice Chereau booted it out the door entirely with a conception that updated the story to the Industrial Revolution and nascent Marxism. Now comes Kupfer, with a daring viewpoint that is as Teutonic as Wolfgang's thick Franconian accent...
...nascent union cause scored a victory last week when legislators in Suffolk County, N.Y., enacted the first law in the U.S. to regulate VDT use in the workplace. The ordinance applies to businesses that operate more than 20 VDTs and mandates a 15-minute break every three hours for workers who use the terminals more than 26 hours a week. Employers must contribute 80% of the cost of eyeglasses and yearly eye exams; by 1990, adjustable chairs and nonglare screens will be compulsory for all new equipment...
...Gorbachev visited Washington last December, the President quoted Emerson: "There is properly no history, only biography." This meant, Reagan explained, "that it is not enough to talk about history as simply forces and factors." In some ways Reagan was right: his personal ideology and stubbornness have led to a nascent strategic-arms accord far more ambitious than anyone would have imagined when he took office. Yet in more fundamental ways, the agreement being shaped is not all that different from a SALT III treaty that a President Walter Mondale might have negotiated with Gorbachev...
...These nascent signs of change on the landscape of apartheid have been a long time coming. In the wake of the bloody 1976 uprising in the sprawling township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, angry young radicals trashed many black businesses, along with government-owned liquor stores and beer halls, as symbols of white oppression. At that time they could find relatively few such targets, since the law impeded black ownership of homes and businesses in urban areas. Only gradually were free enterprise and limited schemes for home ownership extended to the townships on the basis of 99-year leases. In April...