Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pinstripe-clad undergrads, most of whom were seniors, were given the basic facts and figures about the B-School and its admission policy. They were also told they would most likely have to wait until the next decade before beginning their professional education...
...trade problems that lucrative new commercial agreements with the Chinese could help to correct. The Chinese, for their part, produce an enormous quantity of consumer items, particularly textiles and simple manufactured goods like thermos bottles that they would like to barter for East European machine tools and other basic products needed to equip their burgeoning rural industries. China's primitive manufacturing concerns can neither afford nor fully exploit the benefits of advanced Western technology...
...moment, though, the FSLIC is on its own, and the agency has taken several steps in its struggle to stay solvent. For one thing, it has raised the charges it levies on the thrift industry. Besides the basic premiums of $780 million, the agency will assess the industry an additional $1 billion this year. In a more controversial vein, the agency rules governing accounting methods enable thrift institutions to appear stronger than they actually are. For example, S and Ls can stretch out the reporting of losses from mortgage sales. Moreover, 122 S and Ls now count among their assets...
Though Meese's politicization of his office is incompatible with his position as the nation's top law-enforcer, he serves at the request and pleasure of a president who condones his behavior. However, the attorney general's latest statement betrays a fundamental lack of respect for the basic traditions of American jurisprudence. While his views may be defensible in law school discussions, they do not belong in the Justice Department. He cannot be impeached from office, but his tenure in the Cabinet must come to an end. Ed Meese should resign from his office...
Even ideology and issues cannot be explored thoroughly in California's "Bye-Bye Birdie" campaign, as the Chief Justice's opponents have dubbed it. The 30-second commercials and sloganeering so basic to contemporary political campaigning preempt informed discussion. The syllogism, "The Chief Justice has generally voted against executions. I, however, favor them. Therefore I wish to remove her from the Court," typifies what will run through the minds of many voters as they mark their ballots. This kind of cheap politicization of the Court is precisely what the Founding Fathers sought to avoid when they wrote life tenure...