Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very effort to spread the budget cuts across a broad spectrum of society all but ensures that the Reagan program will be attacked by the widest possible range of interest groups, including many now voicing pious support for the general idea of less spending. Already last week, Democratic House leaders, while advising their followers to go along with Reagan's proposal as far as they can, signed a letter warning Reagan to keep his bands off subsidies for development of synthetic fuels, which Stockman suggested chopping by $6 billion in the next fiscal year. Nor were Democrats alone...
...founding fathers recognized and denounced the "spirit of faction." That spirit has always existed in our highly contentious nation; the broad consensus that supposedly prevailed in earlier days is largely a nostalgic illusion. We will never turn into a republic of virtue, animated by perfect brotherhood. We are too large, too varied, too free and too human for that. But in the past at least we usually managed to rule ourselves through rough accommodation, based on the recognition that while I may subdue my neighbor on one issue today, he may subdue me on another tomorrow. The founders thought...
There is a strong argument for leaving the ultimate decision with the president. He must consider the views of students, alumni, faculty, and outsiders, and must weigh all the ramifications of his choice. These broad considerations are not always perspicuous to students, whose obsession with a few important issues--now dismissed cursorily--may preclude the overview afforded by the president...
...believe the same things as a broad strategy: you've got to have sound money -and sound money is a much better phrase than monetarism. All monetarism is, is to try to keep the supply of money in line with the supply of goods and services. If you go away from that, you lose confidence in your money, you lose confidence in the future...
...President has also come under fire for his monarchical style. In fact, Giscard's biggest problem may be that a seven-year term is simply too long, especially in a country in which the President exercises broad authority over aspects of life that range from the price of Métro tickets to nuclear defense. Whatever Giscard's failings, the prospect of a 14-year presidency has generated a combination of lassitude, frustration and second thoughts...