Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a recession next year. And that is the wrong time to slash away at the deficit; tax boosts and cuts in Government spending would deepen any slump, because they would reduce the amount of money in consumers' hands. Some worriers go so far as to raise the ghost of Herbert Hoover, who slashed federal spending and persuaded Congress to raise income tax rates sharply in the wake of the 1929 Crash. Says University of Tennessee Economist Paul Davidson: "Cutting the deficit at this particular time would be the worst thing we could do. It would be Hooverism all over...
...Himmelfarb, a conservative-minded professor at the City University of New York, who specializes in 19th century history (Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians). Her sonorous scorn for the excesses and rigidities of the new history might win the approval of the ghost of Carlyle. She loathes the idea that social history should base itself on a substructure of material detail "that supposedly goes deeper than mere political arrangements and is not amenable to reason." Worse, anthropological history explores "such nonrational aspects of society as mating customs and eating habits"; psychoanalytic history dwells "upon the irrational . . . aspects of individual...
...this case, the State Department was responsible for ghost-writing editorials and misleading journalists in an overall effort to portray the contras as the "genuine voice of the people of Nicaragua." By sullying itself in this operation, the State Department did more than circumvent the law; it undermined its credibility...
...union has not given up the ghost, however, and announced the filing of an anti-trust suit against the league. Given it is a league in which most players last no more than two seasons and earn salaries far below the astronomical sums awarded to the league's stars, and in which the owners deny all of them even the chance to strike the best deal they can while they can, it is clear where our sympathies should...
...ghost of politics past telling a bunch of pols to change for elections to come...