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...forest instead of their own imperfect tree. "James Madison [the Federalist) would be pleased if he were here," declares Ornstein. "The best features of the checks and balances are in play. We are not being dominated by sets of insidious special interests. We are arriving at a set of centrist and sensible policies...
...Reaganomics head-on. With the GNP drooping, industrial plant closings way up. Middle America in shambles and nary a sign of the much-heralded supply side investment boom, it is difficult if not impossible to defend the Republican economic initiatives as leading to overall economic health. A more centrist appeal--challenging Reaganomics on what proponents consider its own merits--would doubtless capture many of those voters more distressed by economic listlessness than by inequity...
...German with side and spurred a late March demand that the French clean up their act. That demand was enough to get the French goat. A third devaluation of the franc in 17 months, as called for, could only embarass the Mitterrand government politically, further ammunition for the centrist opposition claiming the Socialists were fiscally inept. More pressing would be the inflationary effects of any devaluation; some kind of austerity program would have to follow. For a government still bent on spending its way out of recession and into popularity, this was unacceptable...
...your story "The Verdict Is Guilty" about the Israeli commission report on the Beirut massacre [Feb. 21], you described Shinui as a left-wing party. Shinui is a centrist party that opposes the government precisely because of its liberal connections. It cannot be described as a left-wing party...
Rosovsky acknowledged criticism that the College was either too liberal or too restrictive, saying that Harvard was trying to steer a "centrist" course through the Core's emphasis on teaching the basic modes of thinking...