Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hickley decision may or may not have been correct: only those well-versed in the nuances of human will can begin to guess. One thing is sure, however, political conservatives will use the unpopular not guilty verdict to back up their calls for tougher criminal justice policies, to roll back the procedural guarantees of the accused enshrined during the last quarter-century and now under attack anew in Congress...
Dating back through 227 years of impeccably correct regimental rites, Trooping the Color is the celebration of the British monarch's official birthday. This year's ceremony fell victim to an even older tradition: that ineffable rite of a British spring, stormy weather. As Queen Elizabeth II, now 56, prepared to take the salute from the Brigade of Guards-their numbers depleted in service to Her Majesty in the South Atlantic-the skies opened up. The Queen's rain was mercifully short, and while it fell, Elizabeth valiantly attempted to maintain a regal posture...
...five quarters. The expansion of the middle 60s was caused by monetary policy, not the tax cut of '64, as any good money and banking text should explain. Supply-siders are incompetent Republican Keynesians who can't even think clearly enough to do bookkeeping. The monetarist analysis is correct--ask any physicist or math major...
...Watergate into the context of his successes in foreign policy. "It was these little things that I failed in," he said. Watergate, he has suggested all along, amounted to little more than an unfortunate series of low-level mistakes and stupidities that he was too busy to notice and correct...
Nacht: The whole Brezhnev posture is probably playing toward concerns of Americans and Europeans that there is a threat of nuclear war. He wants very much to posture his government on the correct side, the peaceful side, and Reagan as the war monger. I think he's done a quite effective job at that...