Word: emption
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Greenspan's approach has its zealous supporters. Allen Sinai, chief economist for Lehman Brothers, applauds the "totally unprecedented" new strategy of pre-emption. "The old way never worked," he says. "It was always too little and too late." Nevertheless, last week's economic news confirmed that the expansion is in scant danger of overheating. Consumer prices rose just 0.1% in April as falling food and fuel expenses offset a jump in medical costs. At the same time, wholesale prices slipped 0.1% overall. "Here we are three years into the recovery and inflation is still declining," says Ross DeVol, an economist...
...Four Weddings and a Funeral," screenwriter Richard Curits works hard to add interesting twists and turns to the familiar boy-meets-girl scenario. To begin with, the boy only seems to run into the girl at weddings and funerals (an unabashed but not intolerable exploitation of life's most emption-filled occasions). Second, the boy is a die-hard English bachelor who embodies the adage, "Always a bridesmaid and never a bride...
...occasions or national emergencies. Thus it was telling that a documentary, Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse, was scheduled to air last weekend on all four outlets. CBS, NBC and PBS agreed to present the program simultaneously, with ABC showing it two nights later, thus avoiding the pre-emption of the popular 20/ 20. Narrated by talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, herself a victim, Scared Silent mirrors the conclusions of the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, a federal panel (several of whose members served as consultants to the film) that has in fact labeled child abuse...
...trump card in the American deck: even if American ICBMs were destroyed in their silos and American bombers vaporized on their runways or shot down trying to penetrate Soviet airspace, U.S. submarines would still be at the bottom of the ocean, running silent and running deep, invulnerable to pre-emption and bristling with missiles, each capable of exacting terrible revenge on the U.S.S.R. Older U.S. boats are equipped with missiles that carry as many as 14 warheads each, while the newer ones have missiles with eight to 12 warheads. The notion of limiting them to one each is almost unthinkable...
...Cave in by such and such a date, or we come at you with everything we've got. Sounds good, but . . . "The problem with a clear warning," says Michael Mandelbaum, a Johns Hopkins University foreign policy professor, "is that it could cause Iraq to strike pre-emptively, and pre-emption is a card we may want to play ourselves. For Saddam this is World War III. He wins or he dies. If he thinks it's coming, why wouldn't he shoot first? If we could go first, it would lessen our losses on the ground and cause the least...