Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near the windows. A poster urges lucky tourists to ski the slopes at nearby Westford. Belisle's manner is businesslike. At 35 he is already graying and his narrow face has a mournful, clerkish look. But the transactions he records in this brightly furnished office in Worcester, Mass., deal not with commerce but with cruelty. And cruelty of a kind that few people can contemplate with any measure of equanimity-the torture of small children by their parents...
Contended Stanford Economist Michael Boskin: "To deal with inflation, we must get Government spending under control. The longer we wait, the worse the biting of the bullet will be." University of Chicago Economist Walter Fackler insisted that neither voluntary nor mandatory restraints on wages and prices will work. "It's all just a silly game, a ritual we go through periodically. We will have inflation as long as the Federal Reserve continues to pump more money into the system." Yet the President could hardly present a plan for directing the Federal Reserve Board's policies since...
Sometimes the talk got tough. Asked to select three for lunch with Carter, Dayan replied, "We want four, and if we don't have four, they can have lunch without me." Four it was. After all, another plate on the table among neighbors is no big deal. Now and then Carter grew weary of the lawyering. Around the hearth in such intimate circumstances, good men, he thought, should quit nitpicking and get down to real meanings. "That's as much as you are going to get," he told the Israelis at one point. "That's clear...
Even if a deal with the Communists can be worked out, the act of transferring formal recognition from Taipei to Peking would raise a host of legal and legislative problems. The U.S. is tied to Taiwan by 59 bilateral treaties and agreements, plus many more multilateral ones. How many of these pacts could or should survive "derecognition"? What new legislation would be required to keep them in force? How could the U.S. continue to supply arms to a government whose legitimacy it no longer formally recognizes? Government lawyers have been preparing briefs on these and other questions, and the State...
Silberman is left with the unconsoling conclusion that until blacks and the poor are brought into society's mainstream, there is not a great deal courts and cops can do to cut down on crime. He finds a few examples of the poor taking a stake in improving their own communities, but more thoroughgoing solutions will take more money?and patience?than the country has so far been willing to give. "It's a gloomy book," admits Silberman. But an enlightening...