Word: defaultations
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...Democrats are losing their voice. They are losing the populist vote. They are not representing sharply, clearly working class people,” said Reich. “We are becoming by default a party of elite. We are allowing Republicans get away with a huge lie—that they represent the working class...
...website about elite business school admissions called “ASKANDY.” “Ivy grads with nose-bleed GPAs and unclear career goals used to be hired for two years by investment banks and consulting shops during the boom. Now those kids, by default, go to law school, the haven of the unemployed and undecided. HBS may want some of that...
...transformation of Hilles into long-sought social space was hardly a University Hall directive. The Harvard College Library could no longer afford to retain the space, and the College simply inherited it by default. Conversely, the impetus for the QRAC renovations was not too much space but too little. The non-negotiable loss of the Reimann center in 2005 would have left the College’s dancers without a home, and Gross settled on the renovation of part of the QRAC as the most expedient way to solve the impending crunch. But this change too was a response...
...default position that resulted from the failure of the talks and the policy drift inside the administration was unlikely to produce a happy result for Washington or its allies. The U.S. began implementing plans to interdict North Korean shipping on the high seas to stop exports of drugs and weapons - a move that would almost certainly provoke North Korea to raise the ante through some new reckless gesture. And North Korea announced that it was steaming ahead on its nuclear weapons program, repeatedly claiming it had reprocessed all of the spent fuel rods previously under IAEA seal at Yongbyon, which...
...dangers it will choose pulling back over pressing ahead—we could get our act together, and things could start to break our way. But the aggregation of incentives to pull back enumerated above is already formidable. A decision to back off—whether intentional or by default, whether by declaring victory or by palming the job and the fault off onto others abroad and at home—could make our hasty exit from Somalia look like grace under pressure. Our respect and influence in the world, our ability to pursue our interests globally in prudent...