Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must write the life of Maynard." That someone is Charles Hession, author of John Maynard Keynes (Macmillan; 400 pages; $22.95). His ambitious treatment draws on previously unavailable material to portray the private life of the man who forever changed the nature of capitalism by asserting that deficit spending could cure business slumps. The unique angle and breadth of Keynes' vision, Hession argues, were rooted in a combination of intuition, poetry and bisexuality...
Germany weighs a dubious proposal to cure Europe's joblessness
...because more and more positions require skilled workers who are usually in demand. The only sure way to increase employment, say critics, is to increase investment. Herbert Giersch, president of the University of Kiel's Institute for World Economics, says that rationing jobs and economic planning will not cure the hardening of the arteries in the European economy that has become known as Eurosclerosis...
...ending with Auschwitz) for a thinking person to despair. His most memorable characters (Herzog, Mr. Sammler, Henderson the Rain King) can list in sometimes comic detail all the symptoms of the decline of the West. Almost alone in serious contemporary fiction, though, Bellow's heroes think that a cure may be worth...
...Holocaust"-a comment that he says was taken out of context. Today many Jewish leaders are convinced that Jackson is antiSemitic. Although Jews and black leaders have had their differences-particularly on the use of racial quotas, which are anathema to Jews but favored by many blacks as a cure for historic discrimination-the two groups have often worked together politically. Jewish voters, for example, were supportive of black mayoral candidates in Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia. The conflict with Jackson threatens to scuttle that affinity...