Word: harshness
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...American people must decide for themselves what they value more: efficiency or equity. But for the American people to make such a decision, their leaders must not conceal from them the harsh economic realities of this world. There is no such thing as a free lunch. In this respect, Steve Forbes has manifestly failed to do his duty and tell the American people the truth about his flat tax. Instead, he has tried to fool the American people into believing that they can get something for nothing: higher economic growth without greater economic inequality. Hopefully, after four years of President...
...Dole sanded down the speech himself. "We took out all the harsh stuff," he says. "We took out the stuff about Hollywood. We took out a lot of stuff about Clinton because we wanted to tone it down a lot. We didn't want it to be a legislative speech. We wanted it to be about values in America and where we go from here." On Tuesday Dole floated a draft past Gingrich, who, according to a Dole aide, said, "I wouldn't change a word of it. No one will ever say you don't have a vision again...
...largest planet, it probably consists mostly of such noxious gases as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and methane. Fierce jet streams blow unceasingly at hundreds of miles per hour, sometimes spiraling into mammoth hurricanes that last for centuries and are big enough to swallow the Earth. And if this harsh world has any solid surface at all, it's buried under an atmosphere thousands of miles deep, crushed by pressures a thousandfold greater than those at the bottom of the deepest terrestrial sea. A second planet, circling the star 70 Virginis, in the constellation Virgo, is probably even less inviting: because...
...outfits, the collection seemed meager (Lagerfeld produced 84). Perhaps Galliano is simply a rigorous editor, but the kind of exhilarating riffs that Saint Laurent and Lagerfeld can spin out--six or eight variations on a theme--were missing. Least satisfactory was a foray into blatant color for evening. Harsh chartreuse-green silk spoiled a group of prettily shaped party dresses. Deep orange costumes suggesting India were more effective, but does one go to Paris for a sari...
...most partisan Congresses in years, President Clinton delivered his third State of the Union message--a smooth, politically centrist proclamation designed to appeal directly to voters. Republicans accused the President of failing to match his balanced-budget rhetoric with deeds, but they saved some of their toughest adjectives--uninspiring, harsh and stumbling--for one of their own: majority leader Bob Dole and his TV response to the President...