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Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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I ALWAYS wondered how federal policymakers could be so oblivious to the size of the national debt. The United States now owe banks and foreign countries about $3 trillion, constituting a large chunk of our Gross National Product. Each year we spend more than $130 billion in interest payments on...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: National Debt and Hair Loss | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

Why, I used to ask myself, doesn't anybody do something about the debt?

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: National Debt and Hair Loss | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

That was before hair began to accumulate on our shower drain. Now, after three months of living with The Mound, I am beginning to understand some fundamentals of American economic policy. Problems may be so obvious and so disgusting that nobody dares do anything about them.

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: National Debt and Hair Loss | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

THAT'S right. I'm going to talk about hair loss, a subject that strikes fear into the hearts of Harvard men of all academic concentrations. Hair loss is a warning sign of our own mortality, and perhaps more importantly, of the passing of our social prime. One day, we...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: National Debt and Hair Loss | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

It's a horrible thought to deal with. About as horrible, in fact, as the United States dealing with its passing from the center of the global stage. Nobody wants to talk about the national debt because nobody wants to deal with its inevitable ramifications.

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: National Debt and Hair Loss | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

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