Word: albatross
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Videla is determined to wrestle down the unions' "political power and abnormal privileges." Toward that goal, Martinez de Hoz is trying to prune the mammoth state-run industrial sector, a Perón-era albatross that produces less than 10% of Argentina's G.N.P.-and much of the government's debts and deficits. State enterprises employ an estimated 300,000 unnecessary workers. But the Economy Minister's plans to cut bloated staff and sell losing businesses to private firms have run into strong union opposition. When Videla raised the work week of Buenos Aires' huge...
...suspect that although the critic recognizes the injury in sexism, he can't bring himself to take it too much to heart. Rather than go through the motions of confronting this aspect of Miller's work, he scrupulously ignores it. The women's liberation movement long ago slung the albatross of sexism around Mailer's own neck, and he must have considered that intentionally reconjuring its specter in this book would put a large part of his potential readership in a stalking mood--not good, when a writer is out to purvey his product, and the subject of this anthology...
...Harris poll stuck ostentatiously in his dark blue vest. "Poll? What poll?" he asked with elaborate innocence, obviously delighted that the voters surveyed by Harris preferred him over Dole, 48% to 36%. Even in the South, where Mondale's liberal record had been expected to be an albatross, he outrated Dole...
...idea that the Government should guarantee everyone a job through hiring for public-service employment. Though Carter has endorsed the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill. which calls for just such Government hiring, it is a ritualistic blessing only. Says his chief economic adviser, Lawrence R. Klein: "This bill could become an albatross. But no bill goes through Congress without amendments, and I can envision ten amendments that would make this a good bill...
...unreasonable. Stanford Constitutionalist Gerald Gunther says the claim that press freedom "is the one absolute right in the Constitution is absolute nonsense." Former Solicitor General Erwin Griswold, who advised Nebraska officials for their Supreme Court appearance, argues with some persuasion that the mounting need for gags is an inevitable "albatross the press carries around its neck because of its steadily increasing visual impact and immediacy." New York Times Attorney Floyd Abrams sought to rebut this contention before the Justices by citing the trials of John Mitchell, John Connally and William Calley which, he said, show that "at no time...