Word: crass
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That wasn't crass; it was right. Shopping, traveling, gambling (Las Vegas has been losing $30 million a day in revenues) and dining out make perfect Keynesian sense. It's not surprising then that lobbyists are wrapping the flag around breaks for their sector. Last week the "hospitality" industry, billing itself as "the poster child of the consumer retrenchment post-Sept. 11," was busy trying to revive the full deduction for business meals. Slashed by tax reformers in 1986 as a subsidy to the professional classes to eat large at public expense, the 100% deduction is now just the boost...
...ITALY Foot-in-Mouth Italy's controversial Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, provoked outrage with crass remarks. On a trip to Germany, Berlusconi pronounced, "We should be conscious of the superiority of our civilization, which consists of a value system which has given people widespread prosperity and guarantees respect for human rights and religion - this certainly does not exist in Islamic countries." By week's end he had apologized...
...That wasn't crass; it was right. Shopping, traveling, gambling (Las Vegas has been losing $30 million a day in revenues) and dining out make perfect Keynesian sense. It's not surprising then that lobbyists are wrapping the flag around breaks for their sector. Last week the "hospitality" industry, billing itself as "the poster child of the consumer retrenchment post-Sept. 11," was busy trying to revive the full deduction for business meals. Slashed by tax reformers in 1986 as a subsidy to the professional classes to eat large at public expense, the 100% deduction is now just the boost...
...rage for revenge. Those close to him recognize the costs associated with such an attribute. It was a mistake, at a time when the U.S. needs to be sensitive to its Muslim citizens and friends in Islamic countries, to cast the nation's task as a "crusade"; it was crass for Bush to adopt the attitude of a frontier sheriff and say he wanted bin Laden captured "dead or alive." "Sometimes he can be too plainspoken," says an adviser. "But when you net it all out, people like someone when he tells it like...
...decide what kind of nation we will be. Will we be the America that our enemies—the bin Ladens and Iranian mullahs, the fascist despots of Beijing and the tinpot tyrants of the Third World—enjoy painting us as, the champion of depravity and crass materialism, of corporate bottom lines and gaudy, hyper-capitalist excess, the America whose culture drowns in a sea of sadism and sensuality? Or will we be the America of our own fondest dreams, the champion of liberty at home and abroad, the nation whose commercial zeal is tempered by faith, hope...