Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure. The passages of turgid, eye-glazing prose that seem to prevail, require an economics or law background. Posner prefaces each of his four treatises in professorial, outline-on-the-board fashion ("In this chapter, I ask how...," "I hope to challenge...," "I will sketch a model...). With such broad scope, The Economics of Justice cannot avoid a certain disjointedness, and the author's faith in the wonder of human rationality poses a familiar problem for questioning readers. Yet the incisiveness of Posner's ideas shine brilliantly through the flaws. No one has to agree with everything Posner says...
...Almanac's satires nail a broad range of fictitious characters that represent much of what is "establishment" in America. Underlying many of the scenarios that Baker concocts is a fundamental cynicism toward the nation's more materialistic values and the routines they create. He observes...
...arms. This penchant for rebellion?evident again in Solidarity?prompted Karl Marx to call Poland the "thermometer of the intensity and vitality of all revolutions since 1789." Successive occupations and uprisings, moreover, gave Poles a deep-rooted mistrust of foreign-imposed governments and sharpened their skills at organizing broad-based conspiracies. It also increased their pride in the past. Many of Solidarity's buttons show the Polish eagle adorned with the crown that was banned by the Communists...
Nonetheless, Congress gave the President what he wanted by passing during the summer the biggest budget and tax cuts in history. The sweeping $35 billion reduction in the 1982 budget was aimed at a broad range of federal programs. The tax bill included a 25% cut in personal levies over three years and much faster depreciation write-offs for business. Price tag: $280 billion in the next three years...
After devoting 43,000 air miles to international summitry in seven countries, Mitterrand was belatedly paying attention to his national backyard. The interview, conducted by two accommodating TV executives, was an attempt to cast a cloak of presidential conciliation broad enough to reassure his impatient supporters and appease his angry detractors. But it confirmed that neither worsening economic news nor mounting political pressure would deter the new President from fulfilling the sweeping promises made during his campaign...