Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Great Persuader, earned during four successful years as White House chief of staff. He carried on in the same vein, altering the confrontational tone of his predecessor (and successor as chief of staff) Donald Regan. On Third World debt issues, for example, Regan had preached the hard-nosed gospel of austerity for debtor nations. Baker soon changed that with his celebrated proposal for debt relief through renewed economic growth, to be fueled in part by some $20 billion in additional loans from commercial banks...
...modern-day Thorstein Veblen could explain the eagerness with which moneymen like Boesky vied with one another in acquiring the luxurious trappings of a baronial life-style. But the insider-trading scandal, a grotesque perversion of the Reagan free-market ethos, was perhaps the inevitable consequence of the gospel of wealth run amuck...
...some of the others tainted by dishonor, deceit and hypocrisy were to show a similar ability to understand their moral accountability for their actions, perhaps an air of redemption would ensue. But the new American gospel is damage control, using the arts of public relations to deflect blame. "Mistakes were made," was President Reagan's explanation for the Iran- contra affair. His absolute refusal to admit even the slightest responsibility for the ethical chaos around him is telling...
...clever, funky, and even historical mixture of all that's hot in Black music today. Lisa Lisa maintains Janet's rigid stance of female power in the midst of a musical melange of elements from 50s streetcorner doo-wop to hot Miami rhythms, with even a touch of gospel-style chorus tossed in for flavor...
...York Hospital officials were indignant because the state released its report without first giving them the opportunity to comment. "This is not the proper way to do business," fumed Thompson. "People read the health department's report in the newspapers and think it is gospel. It is, in fact, a poorly investigated, erroneous account of what happened." In a hastily prepared but detailed 35-page reply, the institution defended its pre-surgery evaluation of Warhol and said the artist was neither allergic to the antibiotic nor overhydrated. It did admit that staff nurses should have visited his room more frequently...