Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is, after slogging through Rothenberg's exhaustive survey of the neoliberal agenda, almost nothing that emerges as characteristic, except perhaps a cautious pragmatism. Anyone who professes the slightest skepticism for traditional' Democratic interest group politics can join the club. Content to spout generalities about, basically, the current generation of new Democratic leaders, Rothenberg fails to articulate a set of first principles for this newism. And so he fails to support one of the principal tenets of his book--that we are dealing with a new American political ideology...
...officer corps. In much the same way, economic reformers talk glibly about fostering more cooperation between business labor, and government--an idea going around for quite some time now--but by and large they don't specify how this is going to come about. Instead, they are content to excoriate union leaders for being "short-sighted" and businessmen for being "greedy...
...President had been content to preside over a series of carefully staged Rose Garden ceremonies, some honoring ethnics and other voter blocs, and to play the statesman's role on highly visible trips to China and Europe. But last week, with the challenges and chidings of the Democratic Convention still ringing in his ears, Reagan took the gloves off. Declared Campaign Director Edward Rollins: "We are ready to do combat...
After the foul the teams were content to run out the clock and escape with the tie, which gives them one point each in this first qualifying round...
...songs build and twist his idyllic vision, and Reed provides only one song--the bitter, funny "Turn to Me"--that offsets his "new sensations. As a result, most of the songs on the album remain too thin to merit lasting listening pleasure, instead merely showing a Reed content to rest on a by-now stale formula...