Word: buts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT is certain is that the "middle class"--the broad spectrum of Americans for whom culture, outlook and life-opportunities are similar--is being bifurcated. The "two-tiered society" does not just describe two income brackets, but two ways of life and two ways of looking at life in America...
IT'S ACTUALLY fairly unlikely that any one person or group will win. But people tend to describe history as if they already have. Just watch the 3000 review shows about to appear on television, all entitled, "looking back at the 1980s." And ask yourself how you would write the...
Personally, I would tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Having attended Harvard for almost three whole years, I value facts in and of themselves.
But somewhere along the line, the Winners stopped caring and learned to love life as it is. A few random examples:
But the curious coincidence of the rebirth of greed with what President Bush is fond of calling "the longest-lived economic expansion in post-war history," (paid for, not incidentally, by the largest debt in human history) has covered this ethos in a cloak of morality. "Some people may be...