Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration plainly plans to stick to its conviction that its program of tax and budget cuts will revive the economy and eventually cure the triad of economic troubles: high inflation, high unemployment, high interest rates. Liberal and conservative economists tend to agree that the only real solution to unemployment is to focus on the entire economic picture. To a certain extent, though, the Administration's goals are contradictory in a faltering economy. "In large measure, you're stuck with a choice between unemployment and inflation," says Economist Rudolph Penner of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
...pushing its revolutionary program of budget and tax cuts to cure the nation of nagging economic ills, the Administration realized that some suffering was inevitable. Indeed, the White House anticipated a rise in unemployment during the early stages of the program; it was felt that a hike in joblessness was necessary to dampen wage demands and cool inflation, which Reagan regarded as the nation's chief economic problem. But Administration officials never expected that the rate would surge so high or inflict so much hardship...
Roosevelt knew too that the actual administration of the New Deal was only part of the answer. No less important was his psychological campaign to cure what had become a national crisis in confidence. Roosevelt instinctively understood the immense importance of radio as a means to reach and unite people, and with his sonorous voice he brilliantly exploited the new medium in the periodic "fireside chats" that always began: "My friends . . ." Roosevelt was equally adept at manipulating the press. He invented the modern press conference, canceling Hoover's stiff insistence on written questions and inviting White House reporters...
Everywhere, Warner casts her spell, literally. Her mother's ritual for boiling an egg becomes just that. In a piece on folk recipes-a pint of warm beer stirred with a hot poker will cure backache, a slab of raw beef will rub away a wart-the reporter edges deliciously close to magic herself. Even the inventory of the purple velvet handbag of Mme. Houdin, ten-year-old Sylvia's French tutor, becomes a litany of talismans to ward off disaster: smelling salts, two thimbles, a photograph of M. Houdin, the number of madame's life-insurance...
...half-way"--but we still will not win, only prolong the agony. That our troops are not yet in El Salvador can be attributed to a limited comprehension of the Vietnam experience, but that comprehension is rapidly fading. Only when we realize that brute force cannot cure the political, social and economic woes of a nation in upheaval will we have salvaged an honorable legacy from our years of dishonor in Vietnam...