Word: bedrocks
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...after his 21-year break from government, some predict a return to the nation’s capital may be in store for the 65-year-old economist. Experts say Feldstein—an economic superstar who has gained international respect for his bedrock ideas in academia and policy—is one of three top candidates for the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve...
Reading Minsk is like stumbling on the tribal songs of some as-yet-undocumented Arctic people: "Here, the bedrock is older than life/ on earth. It carries no trace of death,/ no methane or anthracite, nothing to burn." Greenlaw's poems are dreams of travel and longing for home. They have the clarity and purity one associates with cold air--which makes her rare outbursts of joy and heat and light all the more dazzling...
...profess to believe in capitalism criticize people who embrace it," Macozoma says. His work with the A.N.C. helped transform the color of South Africa's government, he says, and now he's doing the same for its boardrooms. "You need the same kind of person who was the bedrock of the A.N.C. to be the bedrock of a society that is based on a middle class. There is no way I would support a free-enterprise system that tolerates poverty. But with five or six of us spread out through the economy, that can make a difference in a very...
...moment, Bush's instincts-his supporters would argue these are bedrock values-seem to be paying off. The President's attention span may be haphazard, but the immediate satisfactions are difficult to dispute. Saddam Hussein? Evildoer. Take him out. But wait, no WMD? No post-invasion planning? Deaths and chaos? Awful, but ... Freedom! Look at those Shi'ites vote! And now, after all that rapid-eye movement, who can say the Shi'ites and the Kurds won't create a government with a loyal Shi'ite-Kurd security force? And who can say the Sunni rebels won't-with some...
...same reasons, and one twixter's playful experimentation is another's desperate hustling. James C??t?? is a sociologist at the University of Western Ontario and the author of several books about twixters, including Generation on Hold and Arrested Adulthood. He believes that the economic bedrock that used to support adolescents on their journey into adulthood has shifted alarmingly. "What we're looking at really began with the collapse of the youth labor market, dating back to the late '70s and early '80s, which made it more difficult for people to get a foothold in terms of financial independence...