Word: basic
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...course, our fascination with polls obscures other issues too, including ones closer to home. We watch closely to see how Americans react to proposals for health care and social security reform, yet we care little about the proposals themselves. Few of us knew even the most basic details of Clinton's 1994 health care plan or Republican proposals for reducing the rate of increase of social security payments. All we knew was that most Americans disapproved of those plans, and that seemed to be enough...
Furthermore, certain criticisms, including Jackie Newmyer's essay in the summer Harvard Political Review, allege that following political correctness means preferring works by "non-whites" to works by "whites." Using political correctness as a cover to favor whatever isn't white only recycles white supremacy's basic assumption that one specific race should receive an inherent privilege over all others...
Indifference? That's one theory. Another is--imagination. Imagination, after all, is our basic moral gauge. If you can imagine yourself doing what someone else has been caught doing, it's hard to recommend the death penalty...
This neutral color, say fashion retailer, is fast becoming the new basic for all wardrobes, and unlike the now-fading brown craze of the past two years, investing in gray may not only keep you a la mode today, but will probably be useful for many years to come...
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