Word: contents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With New Sensations, Reed has abandoned his insecurities and turned away from the dark forces of the outside world. Instead, he is content to rest, for the entire album, in his Rooftop Garden. At its best, this attitude gives the album a certain offhand charm and casual sweetness. At its worst, Reed's new-found complacency segues into a timid syrupiness about the world that caters...
Labor. As does Mondale, she supports the protectionist "domestic content" bill requiring that all autos sold in the U.S. be produced with a certain amount of American-made parts and U.S. labor. She voted for the federal subsidies that helped ailing Chrysler Corp. avoid bankruptcy...
...grave, Hermann Kafka answers a famous message left by his son Franz: "You wrote me a letter you never sent. It wasn't for me-it was for the whole world to read. (You and your instructions that everything should be burned. Hah!)" The old man is not content simply to refute the younger Kafka's charges. He turns self-defense into the art of attack: "And you sitting there at meals always with a pale, miserable, glum face, not a word to say for yourself, picking at your food...You haven't forgotten that I used...
...South Lawn. Warmth and tranquillity ruled. Reagan never shouted or scowled. With amiable demeanor and a gesture of good will, he was able to gather a varied political bouquet. Robert Strauss, former Democratic national chairman, was almost silent. House Democratic Majority Whip Tom Foley looked content. The gallant, crippled Jacob Javits, former Republican Senator from New York, wired his blessings. Judge John Sirica, who sent the Watergate offenders to jail, sat straight and proud. Rabbi Joseph Glaser caught every word. The Ambassador from China watched in fascination. Max Kampelman, who was one of Hubert Humphrey's whiz kids from...
Labor unions and companies are besieging the Government with demands for protection from imports. Not content with the voluntary quotas that Japan has placed on car exports, the United Auto Workers union is pressing Congress for a law that would decree that most autos sold in the U.S. must be built primarily with American parts and labor. This so-called domestic-content legislation has passed the House of Representatives twice but faces opposition in the Republican-controlled Senate. Last month the steel and copper industries won judgments from the U.S. International Trade Commission that they had been seriously injured...