Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent the off-years during the Carter administration at the Republican National Committee. There he worked under then-Committee Chairman William Brock devising campaign strategies that were to help bring about a Republican comeback in 1980. "When you're in the party out of power, things are a lot easier." Teeley recalls. "You can fairly attack the administration, take offense at their every mistake and gleefully leap upon them...
Today's thrilling seven-hour jaunt to Cornell should be a tad easier for the Harvard field hockey squad...
SOME foreign policy "pragmatists" would argue that Reagan already compromised U.S. interests in the Philippines by cancelling his trip. Coating the decision with soothing language, they would say, merely makes it an easier pill for Marcos to swallow; given the existence of two key U.S. military bases on the Philippines and Marcos' unflinching support for Washington, maintaining the status quo is a valid priority. And besides, they would add as an afterthought, echoing Machiavelli and Tallyrand, morality has no place in U.S. policy. The president does what has to be done for reasons of state...
...pressing--the IMF needs to remain an advocate for the ability of Northern assistance to spur worldwide development. With patience and persuasion it must silence the North's banking interests and rethink what appears to be a mindless swing towards conservatism. Then Third World finance ministers could sleep easier...
Growing concern, however, has not made the economy much easier to interpret. Indeed, one of the characteristics of economic news is that its great turning points are shrouded in ambiguity and retrospective debate. With the rarest exceptions, the beginnings and ends of inflations, depressions and booms do not announce themselves with any event so unmistakable as the exchange of gunfire that opens a war. Thus, more than in most areas of the news, the stories reprinted here must stand as surrogates for many, many others...