Word: nascent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With education costs skyrocketing, nascent lawyers lured by starting salaries of $70,000 to $80,000 are often inclined to leave their nonyuppie ideals at the Law School...
...educators, students and even private practictioners worry that for too many nascent lawyers, such commitment ends after graduation...
Like his colleagues in the A.N.C. and the Mass Democratic Movement, a coalition of antiapartheid organizations, Sisulu believed the government's nascent benevolence had been forced on it by domestic and international pressure as well as by its desire to avoid further economic sanctions. While no one from the government notified Sisulu's wife Albertina that he was to be released, De Klerk found time to telephone British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to tell her he was freeing a group of aging black leaders as she had urged him to do. Thatcher took that news with her to the Commonwealth...
...Marx said that even when the endowment is complete, PBHA will still need grants from the council to fund nascent programs and rising staff costs. He said the endowment also would not completely cover PBHA's day-to-day expenses...
That sounds like a nascent -- and ironic -- re-election slogan. Last year Dukakis declared that the contest for the White House was about "competence, not ideology." Bush won the election by campaigning on "values." After seven months as President, however, Bush seems to be betting that what he accomplishes will matter more than who he is or what he stands for. As Reagan fades from the public's mind, a clearer portrait of Bush is emerging, and his problem-solving style and relentlessly cautious decision making suggest that he is already positioning himself to run on the Dukakis slogan...