Word: banging
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Certainly that efficiency brings benefits. Some economists say if more of the benefits were quantified--if we could say how much more bang-per-buck you would get from Windows 95 than from dos 3.0, or from a new CD player than from an old, no-frills model--the official inflation rate would be lower and median wages would then look less stagnant, if far from vibrant. Another benefit of lean, efficient capitalism is jobs; the American unemployment rate is stunningly low by European standards--half the French and Italian rates...
...sheer energy of Hanoi startled veterans of our 1985 Newstour, who remembered little but drab poverty. This time we saw a Vietnam bursting with commerce, construction, luxury hotels and growth in every sector. "We owe our prosperity to the new policies of the government," said a villager in Dinh Bang, 12 miles from Hanoi, and for once the party line is true. Ten years ago, the heirs of Ho Chi Minh concluded that their country was stagnating and decided to build an internal market while inviting foreign investment. The country still has a one-party state and a sluggish bureaucracy...
Harvard men's hockey plans to kick off its 1995-96 season with a bang on October 15, beginning its preseason at the first possible minute that Ivy League rules allow in a practice that is generally known as Mid-night Madness. All Ivy League winter teams can begin practice on that date...
Long ago, Jesuit father and finger-wagging mother understood truths that return to us now with what Emerson called "an alienated majesty." The cultural Big Bang of the '60s destroyed the authority of common sense. The homeliest folklore comes back now as a ghost of lost knowledge or else shows up in the polyesters of what liberals dismiss as the "religious right...
...Bren, the Irvine Co. developer and a longtime Wilson backer. In a tense session with Wilson, Bren and Fuller, Gorton recommended bugging out of Iowa for lack of organization, manpower and money. Instead the campaign should concentrate on New York, he said, where TV ads can achieve far more bang for the buck. Fuller argued vehemently against the idea, but Wilson backed Gorton. Fuller then sidelined himself to Washington as fund-raising supervisor and surrogate public campaigner, leaving Gorton supreme in Sacramento--for about 72 hours. On Friday, in a meeting with Wilson, Fuller argued in effect, "Either Gorton goes...