Word: delusional
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Minimum wage laws have tremendously detrimental effects. Most economists recognize the many inefficiencies, but some Americans still support minimum wages under the delusion that such regulations help the poor. But government intervention actually harms these people by decreasing job opportunities.
This fact makes the staff's effort to portray all opposition to the treaty as some crazy delusion of Ross Perot inaccurate and slightly offensive. Real people will lose their jobs because of this treaty. The staff seems to overlook that. One hopes that President Clinton and others will consider...
The password creates a delusion of self-importance. Although 11,000 of your closest friends may be on the network at the same time as you, your password deceives you into thinking you have been granted privileged access to a new high-tech world.
But if musicalizing Sunset Boulevard does not detract, it does not add much either. Of nine songs centered on Norma, just one achieves what dialogue alone could not. When she returns in what she imagines is triumph to the studio that dropped her two decades before, she envisions glories to...
& If black men have been invisible in America, as Ralph Ellison argued, black women have been inaudible. Doubly oppressed by racism and sexism, they have often gone unheard as male civil rights leaders did the talking for their race and white feminists did the talking for their sex. In recent...