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...progressive and lavish agenda that emerged in the 1960s--to which many contemporary Democrats still cling--resulted from an unsophisticated naivete which dominated America at the time. We believed that it was possible to solve all of our problems, purity our still imperfect society, with little or no cost to the people. After all, the economic pie had consistently been growing at mercurial rates since World War II. No redistribution of wealth would be necessary to clean up the environment and eradicate poverty. Nor would civil strife arise as the liberals attempted to erase sexual and racial discrimination. Gripped...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Taking the Liberal Out of the Democrat | 11/10/1984 | See Source »

...mess. Screenwriter W.R. McKinney wrenches his plot endlessly, attempting to make plausible the weird shifts in tone. The leads (Nick Nolte and JoBeth Williams) and a raft of good supporting players are simply set adrift, looking for a logical line to which their bedraggled characters might cling. There are no survivors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Nov. 5, 1984 | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

What is more, Shamie has exhibited little grasp of foreign policy affairs and clings to the patently absurd notion that somehow the deficit will disappear after a few years of moderate economic growth, a balanced budget amendment and a Presidential line item veto. It is a ridiculous theory, but it is one shamie must cling to in order to bang home his bit campaign pitch: no more taxes. In the course of the campaign, however, Kerry has forced Shamie to concede instances in which he would agree to a tax increase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stopping The Conservative Tide | 10/31/1984 | See Source »

...find represented a great leap forward in science's attempt to prove the so-called unified field theory, which would link the four forces of nature in a single elegant set of equations. Two of those forces are familiar: electromagnetism, which lights bulbs and makes clothes cling; and gravity, which holds humans to the ground and determines the earth's orbit around the sun. The remaining two are more exotic: the so-called strong force, which binds together the particles in a nucleus; and the weak force, which controls radioactive decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: PHYSICS: BOSONS' BOSSES | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...dual measurements however, is growing very fast, Underwood continues, cling grocery labeling as one broad example. Moreover, he notes that most schools are teaching with systems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sport Waves | 10/10/1984 | See Source »

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