Word: err
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Irrational Inquirer are scheduled to reach newsstands this week, and except for the price, $2, vs. 65? for the Enquirer, the takeoff is all but indistinguishable from the original. Indeed, that may be the jape's major flaw. Even regular readers of the Enquirer and its ilk may err in guessing which of the following stories comes from the spoof and which from the "real" tabloids: - The Chinese Communist government is sabotaging the U.S.-by spreading herpes. - John Lennon speaks daily from beyond the grave to his widow Yoko...
...conservation vs. development debate, the impact of today's policies will not be fully apparent for decades. It is that very uncertainty that has led Interior policymakers to err on the side of preservation and caution. Because Watt's radical course carries with it the risk of irrevocability-lands cannot be unsold, offshore oil wells undrilled nor sullied wilderness made virginal again-his department is no longer a quaint political backwater. For better or worse, Watt's Interior stewardship may be the century's most significant. Among his controversial moves...
...other hand, they [turn out to] be too usable, there's always the possibility of their leading to a holocaust, which nobody wants to see either. So you're caught in a very tight space....I think what Reagan has done by his declarative policy is err in the direction of usability and thereby stimulate great public concern. I think that gives him the title of father of the nuclear freeze movement...
...seems always better to err on the side of caution....Nuclear weaponry constitutes a fairly small portion of the defense budget, and so running the nuclear arms race does not tax the capacity of the American public. Second, I would agree, and this is very much a debatable point, that continuing to run the nuclear arms race, erring on the side of caution, caution defined in precisely this way, hasn't really been all that dangerous. It's simply been a moderate expense...
...What Reagan has done by his declarative policy is err in the direction of usability and thereby stimulate great public concern. I think that gives him the title of father of the nuclear freeze movement...