Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep life simple, especially when simplicity swims increasingly out of reach. The simple life, too is a basic American myth, but it was a lot closer to being realized before the age of genetic finagling, test-tube babies and nuclear arms. Complex social problems do not harry pioneers. The constant conflict between capitalism and Christianity, for examaple, could be resolved, at least in words, by the figure of the rugged individual who gives to charity of his free will, not by paying his taxes. No socialists here. Perhaps we just seek to preserve our distinctiveness from the Old World...
Beset by a constant barrage of disclosures about horrific waste, the Pentagon is struggling to get a tighter control over spending practices. Last week the Defense Department's inspector general, Joseph Sherick, pointed out that over the past three years his office had conducted 59,000 internal audits, potentially saving the Government $6.1 billion. Many of the most blatant examples of waste and cost overruns cited by the press and Congress, Sherick insisted, had actually been ferreted out by his team of 19,000 auditors...
...Francine and Mickey's courtship depend too predictably on '60s pop songs for period flavor. But most of the details ring true, from the woefully inadequate bromides offered by elders ("a woman's got to take the bitter with the sweet, you know") to the constant background din created by the children, to the way Mickey childishly brandishes his fists at his cowering wife, a neighborhood bully grown to frightening stature. The Burning Bed makes its case, and a lot more. It is an eloquent and gripping drama, and the best TV movie of the year...
...THIS argument is based on the assumption that the ratio of educated volunteers to total volunteers is a constant. It isn't. The Armed Forces may be attracting more volunteers, but it isn't necessarily attracting more, qualified volunteers. That's why there is continuing pressure to lower standards, to teach weapons to deal with illiterates rather than the other way around...
...White House briefing, Meese happily embraced the Stein report. He said it confirmed that he and his wife "have never taken advantage of an official position to obtain private gain." His ordeal, Meese said, had taught him "the need for constant vigilance and sensitivity, not only to actual conduct but also to how conduct may be perceived." President Reagan said that if reelected, he would resubmit the Meese nomination when the new Senate meets in January...