Word: deliverers
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There is another possible solution: leadership. Someone -- a President, say -- could actually stand up and tell the truth: that various public goods call for widespread sacrifice. But leadership is harder in an age of decentralized media -- an age of "demassification," in the Tofflers' term. In the old days a President...
The true masters are motormouths like Hamblin, Boortz, Hannity -- and the supremo, Rush Limbaugh, whose syndicated sermon is attended by 20 million people a week on 660 stations. Talk radio trails only country music as the nation's most pervasive format; it commandeers more than 15% of the fragmented audience...
Johnson has promised similar reforms since he became chief in December 1983, department sources said, but has so far been unable to deliver. The chief also conceded that many of the new initiatives will not be implemented until 1997. Those which require more officers will have to wait until the...
The contrast with the members of the ancien regime was startling. The Republicans of the 104th Congress are largely white, male and strikingly young. The white males among the devastated Democratic ranks are older and tired looking. As Gingrich prepared to give his surprisingly conciliatory opening address, several vanquished Democratic...
As envisioned by the Republicans since the election, turning it back to the states is an evasion in a cruder sense as well. They propose bundling the money now being spent on various federal programs (like food stamps) into "block grants" for the states to spend as they please. But...