Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anything-goes school of writing is exemplified by other recent bestsellers: Judith Krantz's Princess Daisy, Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave or Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong's The Brethren. Like Talese, Woodward and Armstrong are not only verbose but fond of dangling their modifiers and splitting their infinitives. Toffler specializes in hyperbolic jargon: "Vast changes in the techno-sphere and the info-sphere have converged to change the way we make goods. We are moving rapidly beyond traditional mass production to a sophisticated mix of mass and demassified...
...John Anderson, 13 for Bush, one for Anne Armstrong, former U.S. Ambassador to Britain, and four abstentions...
Republican Senator William Armstrong of Colorado has proposed indexing federal income taxes. He and others maintain that inflation is pushing people into tax categories originally intended for only the superrich. Americans will pay $14 billion more in federal taxes this year solely because of inflation-induced salary increases. Says Armstrong: "The problem now is that the recipients of federal money are all indexed, while the people paying the taxes are not. If there's no possibility to deindex recipients, then it's only fair that we protect taxpayers through an indexation of taxes...
...while taking away with the other, anyone intent on labeling the Burger Court has had to fight off a case of the whirlies. It has become fashionable to characterize the court as leaderless (all the more so since the December publication of The Brethren, the Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong reconstruction of the court's inner workings that did for Warren Burger what Unsafe at Any Speed did for the Corvair). Paul Bender, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that no single Justice "commands respect for his substantive ideas the way Harlan or Frankfurter...
...Brethren, Woodward & Armstrong...