Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young jarheads last week jokingly called it a "Marine sewing circle," insisting that the ritual is an integral part of Marine bonding. But even some men who have been pinned warn that the tapes depict a form of hazing far more vicious than the customary single punch. Bernard Trainor, a retired Marine lieutenant general who lectures on national security at Harvard, has fond memories of the day he received his punch 32 years ago in Vietnam. "I never questioned it," he says. "It was part of the rite of passage." The senior jumper in his unit made a little speech...
...after he has left office, letting him take credit now before the sacrifices begin to bite. Still, the budget may sit well with a public that says it wants Congress to tackle the deficit instead of nit-picking over the details. "Clinton has the upper hand," notes TIME's Bernard Baumohl, "because the Republicans risk making themselves look like obstructionists if they don't cooperate." The centerpiece of the tax cut package is a $500-per-child credit for children younger than 13 in families with an income of up to $75,000. Cost: $46 billion. Another $36.1 billion...
...image a tree in full blossom, with a broken trunk. The big scenes are somewhat muted (Marjorie Yates' Linda and Mark Strong's Biff are good if unmemorable) but the small ones achingly poignant--like the mix of awe and desolation with which Willy marvels at next-door neighbor Bernard's success: "Your friends have their own private tennis court?" What emerges most clearly in this version is Miller's critique of capitalism: Willy is less a tragic figure brought down by his flaws than the pawn of a system that sells a dream, then cannot deliver...
...that the index was overestimating inflation by 1.1 percentage points annually, an error that will cost the government $1 trillion over the next 12 years in cost-of-living increases and lost tax revenue. "Greenspan has been pushing for an adjustment to the CPI for years," notes TIME's Bernard Baumohl. "What's new in his call for yet another commission to study the matter is that this would be an independent commission, rather than a government one that presumably has an interest in recommending that the CPI be lowered. This could make its findings more acceptable." The commission would...
...General Terry Scott was tapped by Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye Jr. last month to succeed Lt. General (Ret.) Bernard Trainor as programs director...