Word: doom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...essays in Reality and Rhetoric are full of promises of doom should the Third World continue on its present course. But Bauer's failure is that he never displays a full under standing of why these countries act the way that they do now, and whey an economic logic stronger than Bauer's prevents them from changing course as radically as he proposes...
...Academics Committee is trying to set up a system in which upperclassmen would attend all doom proctor meetings on academic advising to answer freshmen's questions. As Mr. Melamed agrees, upperclassmen would offer a valuable yet different perspective from proctors. In particular, upper-class advisors would be able to describe current courses and trends within many academic departments and could direct freshmen to other students who have knowledge of departments and could direct freshmen to other students who have knowledge of departments the advisors do not know well. It is a needless waste of a resource not to employ...
Though simple and evenhanded, the Hall-Rabushka plan has at least two features that probably doom it politically. First, it calls for a low 19% tax rate on even the richest of taxpayers. Second, it does away with many tax preferences, like the deduction of mortgage interest, that millions of Americans rely upon...
...thread of folly that runs through Barbara Tuchman's books is a filament of doom. In The Guns of August, a wrongheaded French strategy in the first days of World War I leads inexorably to the deadlock of the trenches. The tensions and energies of fin-de-siéde Europe and America in The Proud Tower are primed to explode in that same war. And the chaos of the 14th century becomes A Distant Mirror of the modern distemper...
...squabbling among his advisers reinforced the President's deep distrust of economists. In a January radio address, he described economic forecasting as "far from a perfect science" and called economists "naysayers" and "doom criers." Though Rea gan was never a doctrinaire supply-sider who believed that deficits were nothing to get too concerned about, the President apparently refuses to believe that the budget gap will be as big and as harmful as Feldstein thinks...