Word: powering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...messages to different audiences: Saddam, America's allies and its own public. Saddam, in Washington's analysis, is a paranoid thug to whom force is everything. To him the message can only be that he must pull out of Kuwait because the only alternative is the destruction of his power and perhaps his life. But the allies are reluctant to see the Middle East go up in flames, and so are the Americans whose sons, husbands and brothers -- or daughters, wives and sisters -- might be killed. The message to them has to be that the U.S. will turn...
...their best social hope as well. "In the next 10 years," he predicts, "you'll see the churches growing through the walls because people have nowhere else to go." Whatever its religious forms, in other words, the black church still has what Lincoln and Mamiya call the "institutionalized staying power of a human community that has been under siege for close to 400 years." If the church flourishes, the community will gain strength...
...burden of power has added weight to his taut cheeks, sketched lines under his eyes and erased the spontaneity from his grin. The face of Carlos Salinas de Gortari recalls Mexico's ubiquitous clay masks: one side smiles, free of trenchant thought; the other is a frieze of pained contemplation. That, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz wrote in The Labyrinth of Solitude 40 years ago, is typical of his countrymen: "His face is a mask, and so is his smile...
Salinas seems to be tugging his country out of a feudal past, yet he is also pulling Mexico back to an era of paternalistic rule by an all-powerful caudillo. Behind the engaging grin, twinkling eyes and computer-like mind is a man obsessed with his public image. "He is fascinated with power and control," says a longtime acquaintance. "Whether it's politics or football, he wants to win every time. And if he doesn't, he can be very nasty...
Salinas was to the presidential manner born. His father Raul was Minister of Commerce and Industry in the 1950s and a man who schooled his son early in the uses of power. Carlos' family connections and the Ph.D. he earned at Harvard in political economy and government assured him success. But in Mexico the path to power is politics, and politics means the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). By the mid-1970s Salinas was hustling up the ladder...