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...Reagan Administration's economic programs, it could not have picked a better week to do so, or a better man to deliver the message. Robert Solow, 63, who last week won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, is a liberal academic who has never hidden his disdain for Reaganomics. And when the Brooklyn-born professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stepped before the cameras to acknowledge his award, he needed little prompting to lay into the policies that led to last week's crash. "The best thing you can say about Reaganomics," he asserted, "is that...
Reagan has made little effort to hide his disdain for the Guatemala peace accord, most recently charging that it "falls short of the safeguards" contained in an earlier proposal put forward by Reagan and Wright. The White House has interpreted Arias' visit as a snub. "How would the Costa Ricans like it if our President were to accept an invitation from their legislature, pretty much bypassing their executive branch?" observed an Administration official. Costa Rican officials based in Washington deny that Arias is intentionally insulting Reagan. In fact, shortly after Wright extended his invitation, the Costa Ricans suggested a meeting...
Announcement of the new course follows calls from conservative critics for a return to study of the basic texts of Western culture, which adds to the impression that the department once again is asserting disdain for all things non-traditional. After all, this is the department that has left vacant for years a chair in African history. But it would be wrong to fear that this decision is the first sign of a departmental capitulation to the Great Books philosophy of education...
...appeals court judge, Bork got involved in a number of controversies. His disdain for the constitutional right to privacy was clear in a strongly worded Bork opinion ruling against a Navy enlistee discharged for homosexual conduct in the barracks. Bork was criticized by more liberal colleagues on the court for what they described as his result oriented tactics. In their view he bent legal principles to achieve the conservative outcome that he reached in almost every case...
...good-government takeover of the town Democratic committee and then building an organization to expand the fight statewide. There was a strong element of social class to the struggle: well- educated reformers rebelling against old-line Irish ethnic politics. Elected to the state legislature in 1962, Dukakis radiated disdain for backslapping and favor trading while zealously championing causes like no- fault auto insurance...