Word: albatrosses
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...network of economists to feed the candidate ideas on how to deal with unemployment, inflation and economic growth. The technical ability and political insights of these experts can make or break a campaign-as illustrated by George McGovern's 1972 economic program that turned into a vote-losing albatross. Moreover, the ideas of the economists who advise the eventual winner can shape the way Americans live and work for years after the election-especially if, as can happen, the candidate's campaign advisers become the policymakers of a new Administration...
...those of us foreigners who have luckily escaped being saddled with the albatross of American self-condemnation, the self-flagellating despair of bourgeois life has always been a puzzle. For three decades, we in the rest of the world have watched American movies with mouth-dripping envy, fantasizing about the day when we too will have those shiny Formica kitchens, the big cars with lots of chrome, blinking computers everywhere, Las Vegas, Gary Cooper. It seemed like paradise, but good old Richard Cory just went and shot himself. In spite of its inane aspects, the recent flood of nostalgia...
...contrast, the present-day bird with the largest wing span is the wandering albatross, which measures about 11 ft. from wing tip to wing...
...consortiums, the two governments had agreed to guarantee all loans obtained by the two tunnel companies. Moreover, a high-speed rail connection between the tunnel and London would have cost Britain $885 million. For a nation struggling with a 19% inflation, the project started to look like a fiscal albatross...
Speaking on the financial arrangement between the two colleges, Horner repeated her assertion that "Radcliffe is not a financial albatross for Harvard...