Word: faithfully
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...easily undo the damage our president and his accusers have done to the nation--to the quality of our political discourse, to our standing abroad, to our faith in the political system. Rebuilding trust and civility in government will be perhaps the most urgent and difficult task awaiting President Clinton's successor...
...analysis but by conclusions--specifically a belief in so-called supply-side economics. No matter what the data showed, the results among Reagan-era economists like Arthur Laffer were always the same: tax cuts and less regulation were the solution. Rubin, Greenspan and Summers have outgrown ideology. Their faith is in the markets and in their own ability to analyze them. "It's unusual," Greenspan says. "In Washington usually you come to the table, and everyone meets, and no one changes their mind. But with us, you have something else...
This pragmatism is a faith that recalls nothing so much as the objectivist philosophy of the novelist and social critic Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), which Greenspan has studied intently. During long nights at Rand's apartment and through her articles and letters, Greenspan found in objectivism a sense that markets are an expression of the deepest truths about human nature and that, as a result, they will ultimately be correct...
...course, a lot of this faith in destiny is pure egotism. To think that you and I were uniquely fated suggests that we were especially deserving of celestial attention. I can see how that would be true for you, but not for me...unless you were selected for my improvement--sort of heavenly social work. No considerate deity would have allowed just anyone to be stuck with...
...have it anyway: a new, collective TV homage to lives of greater meaning and lower cell-phone bills. Perhaps CBS's soon-to-be-shelved sitcom Maggie Winters suffered because it didn't give its heroine a holier or more wholesome life-style alternative. Instead, it relocated a dumped Faith Ford from Chicago to her mother's house in Indiana for bonding and the occasional line dance...