Word: casefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hence can not be used to improve the lot of man kind. "Who was the wisest man in the Bible, supposedly?" he asks and answers: "He was King Solomon, of course. Two women claiming the same baby appeared before Solomon, asking him to apply his legendary wisdom to their case. He suggested cutting the baby in two."End of argument. To which the only informed response must...
...could construct a kind of "worst-case scenario" to prove that the U.S., with the rest of the West, has fallen into dangerous decline. The case might be argued thus: the nation's pattern is moral and social failure, embellished by hedonism. The work ethic is nearly as dead as the Weimar Republic. Bureaucracies keep cloning themselves. Resources vanish. Education fails to educate. The system of justice collapses into a parody of justice. An underclass is trapped, half out of sight, while an opulent traffic passes overhead. Religion gives way to narcissistic self-improvement cults...
...word decadence, like an iridescent bubble, can be blown too large; it will burst with too much inflation of significance. In any case, decadence is too much a word of simplification. The U.S. is too complicated, housing too many simultaneous realities, to be covered with one such concept. Sub cultures of decadence exist, as they have in all societies. The amplifications of the press and television may make the decadence seem more sensational and pervasive than it really...
...Chrysler's pitch was based on a "worst-case analysis"--a tactic the Pentagon has honed to the finest degree. Few financial observers predicted that Chrysler would actually have to liquidate all its operations simultaneously. Assuming that it did continue to decline, Chrysler would more likely continue to lose its share of the market to GM, albeit at a faster rate than it has for the past decade...
Officials from the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, which is financing about 80 per cent of the extension project, ruled last spring that the $1 million in compensation is justifiable, "in the peculiar case of a University...