Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most economists were surprised by the sharp jump in joblessness. Says George Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.: "All claims that the recession is ending now ring rather hollow." Perry fears that unemployment may go on rising into the spring...
...such explanations ring Hollow. Already most campus policies of any import are made behind closed doors--by secretive, unaccountable bodies like the Corporation and the Faculty Council. Housing policies, too, have in practice been quietly settled upon by assistant dean Thomas A. Dingman '67 and others' inconsiderate University Hall officials. That undergraduates have been shut out of much decision-making on student life issues is as good a reason as any why the renovations planned for this summer were executed so slowly and clumsily, why students are still assigned to North House "sink closets" in the spring, and why grave...
...assessment: 1) Jewish psychological defense mechanisms, not radical idealism, sparked what turned out to be a valuable new critique of American society and 2) when the original leadership gave way to a largely non-Jewish contingent, a different and more pernicious set of selfish motives drove SDS toward a hollow and violent revolutionary doctrine. Startling at first, these conclusions seem less remarkable after separating out the social science jargon and comparing the actual reasoning to existing theories...
...gloom which seems out of place. His wife, while sympathetic and a true believer, is almost as weak as he, and far less intelligent Patricia is too much of a vegetable to elicit more than viscereal pity. Thus watching these characters interact is disturbing, but the film remains fundamentally hollow on the emotional level...
...more than a half-century, Soviet officials have claimed that their economic system is superior to Western capitalism and, as Nikita Khrushchev once said, would some day "bury" it. Such boasts sound particularly hollow today. Perhaps the greatest challenge that the new Soviet leadership faces is finding a way to haul the Communist economies out of their stagnation...