Word: diversionism
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The applications process itself is a truly daunting undertaking for anyone unfamiliar with the American system. The very idea of a liberal arts education is an American concept; in many other tertiary educational systems, students are channeled down narrowly defined paths that do not give much scope for experimentation. For...
The mentality of addiction, of alcoholism, prevails in zones of American life even when no drugs are involved. Americans are addicted to television, a true enslavement, a dreary mania. When diversion is all, real life vanishes. Americans are addicted to the consumption of energy, to profligate plastics and convenience power...
The consensus of economists is that union will add around 1% to West Germany's current yearly inflation rate of 2.5% and enough additional stimulus to keep annual growth around 4%. Interest rates will probably be higher than they otherwise would have been, although Friedel Neuber, chairman of the WestLB...
Susan Orleans is a free-lance journalist who works weekends, as evidenced by her lively nonfiction, Saturday Night (Knopf; 258 pages; $19.95). Ranging around the U.S., she watches people spend and squander their leisure hours. In Elkhart, Ind., folks drive slowly up and down Main Street. In Los Angeles airheads...
But U.S. assistance apparently did not end when the war did in 1988. Even after the potential misuse of CCC guarantees was disclosed, and despite Iraq's worsening financial condition, the Bush Administration approved an additional $500 million credit line for this year under the same CCC program. Officials argued...