Word: axioms
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...last challenger to unseat an incumbent President, Bill Clinton, ran on the axiom that it's "the economy, stupid." He won, but that does not make the assumption--that Presidents control the economy--any less fictitious. They do not. The idea that they do, the central motif of most every presidential election, is crazy...
...last challenger to unseat an incumbent President, Bill Clinton, ran on the axiom that it's "the economy, stupid." He won, but that does not make the assumption - that Presidents control the economy - any less fictitious. They do not. The idea that they do, the central motif of most every presidential election, is crazy...
BROCKTON, Mass.—Remember the axiom about baseball being a “thinking man’s game?...
...Alliances-Yes or No? In his viewpoint "A Farewell to Allies" [Jan. 12] Charles Krauthammer quoted 19th century British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston's axiom: nations have no permanent allies, only permanent interests. That sentence should be placed on the front page of newspapers everywhere. For once, even as a Frenchman, I totally agree with Krauthammer's views. I would add that not just Europe but also the U.S. and all other countries have always lived by Lord Palmerston's axiom. There is no such thing as friendship between nations, nor has there ever been a savior for the common...
...should not surprise us. Countries have different interests. For a half-century, anticommunism papered over those differences, but communism is gone. Europe lives by Lord Palmerston's axiom: nations have no permanent allies, only permanent interests. Alliance with America is no longer a permanent interest. The postwar alliance that once structured and indeed defined our world is dead. It died...