Word: flapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the President last week pooh-poohed the flap as a "cheap political shot," some conservatives have been critical. Wrote New York Times columnist William Safire: "For a public official's wife to be 'on the take' is wrong, plain and simple." After TIME's initial inquiries about the First Lady's clothes, a number of outfits that had been lent to Nancy Reagan were quietly returned to their owners...
...course, the more complicated issue is what the "Jazz" flap reveals about Harvard's Core curriculum. Supposedly, the Core curriculum depends upon specially crafted classes, designed to introduce non-concentrators not simply to a given body of knowledge, but rather to the methodolgy of a particular field...
...resolve the jazz flap, an administration--that so often is indifferent and seemingly impervious to change--acted quickly. Of course, the excitement resulting from the resolution of the problem is testimony to the low expectations most Harvard students have come to have toward the administration. Hopefully, the University will use this action as an example for quickly resolving future mix-ups and responding to students concerns...
...that weapon should be used sparingly. Protectionism encourages U.S. companies to remain inefficient and drives up prices to consumers. The flap about fair trade obscures an inescapable fact: the fault for our industrial woes lies not with our trading partners but in ourselves. If every trade barrier on earth magically disappeared, the U.S. deficit would probably decline no more than 20%. The primary responsibility for the trade deficit rests both with a profligate Government whose tax and spending policies have encouraged overconsumption and with much of U.S. industry, which grew fat and complacent during its halcyon days in the 1950s...
...diplomatic flap: the Foreign Office quickly announced the expulsion of Medina Perez and the Cuban Ambassador, Oscar Fernandez Mell. Officials said those fired on were performing routine surveillance...