Word: fairings
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YOUR presidency has been criticized for "drifting," for being concerned with style at the expense of substance. That's not completely fair. After all, Harry S Truman once said the president is just a "glorified public relations man." Problems arise when public relations takes the place of policy, and these problems have arisen in your presidency...
HUSO is not, as the editorial suggests, an alternative legislature trying to compete with the Undergraduate Council. Rather, we seek to foster communication among student groups, and to secure fair treatment for organizations from the administration. In the future, we will probably lend our voice to the Undergraduate Council's on selected issues. But our roles will be those of lobbyists, coordinators and researchers promoting the interests of student organization--for example, by increasing U.C. grants...
Proponents of the deal believe the bulk of technology flow will be from Japan to the U.S. Edward Bursk, chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association of America's International Council, told Congress last month he thought the agreement was fair. Said Bursk: "The U.S. technology involved in FSX is at a reasonable level and under U.S. Government control," adding that Japan could build a comparable plane by itself...
What happened to those glorious days of yesteryear, when California produced Red-baiting Richard Nixon, tap-dancing George Murphy, and the diminutive, tam- o'-shanter-wearing S.I. Hayakawa, who said of the Panama Canal, "We should keep it; we stole it fair and square"? Or, for that matter, the Gipper? On the liberal side, there was Jerry Brown, promoter of Zen politics and Spaceship Earth. Bill Schneider, political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, blames Governor Moonbeam for starting the trend away from trendy. "Brown singlehandedly is responsible for the election of at least two of the most boring politicians...
...fair, there was little of the shamelessly self-congratulatory rhetoric that normally consecrates such empty agreements. The President called the budget pact a "first, manageable step" taken "in a constructive, bipartisan spirit." The Democrats reflected mild embarrassment over the ease with which they had capitulated to Bush's no-new-taxes pledge, something close to the Administration's defense-spending target and budget chief Richard Darman's strategy of forcing Congress to make the fiscally necessary but unpopular cuts in domestic programs. "This is not a heroic agreement," said House Speaker Jim Wright, putting it mildly. And Senate Majority Leader...