Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faculty committee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, now consists of 26 staff members and 85,000 sponsors, and publishes a quarterly newsletter, "Nucleus," periodically releases declarations of their views on public issues, Johnston said. Next week, UCS will urge the passage of SALT, "not because it is ideal but left without it we are worse off," she added...
...these ambitious social goals have been fulfilled. Instead, Mexico has become one of the world's most stratified and unequal societies. Ironically, much of the blame for Mexico's failure to achieve its constitutional goals must be placed on the unique political instrument that is supposed to embody the ideal of the permanent revolution: the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the P.R.I...
...avoid such extremes, the U.S. may be forced to take strong measures to bring down inflation. Grove and Washington Economic Consultant Robert Nathan reluctantly vote for a "quick and dirty" solution that would include draconian measures. Says Grove: "The ideal program would be very sharp fiscal and monetary policies buttressed at the outset by wage and price controls. The controls would be cosmetic, to convince people that the program is really going to work." Okun scorns this as the "trillion-dollar cure," meaning that it would cost the nation that much in lost production. He believes that such a solution...
...library in its new building but forgot to figure out what to do with the books it already owned. Sorting and moving the books from Littauer to the new building, it turned out, would cost more than the school wanted to spend, and the books in Littauer weren't ideal for the K-School, anyway. But, of course, the K-School couldn't just leave its books as a windfall for the Ec and Gov Departments; the fabled "every tub on its own bottom" dictum that segregates budgets across the University saw to that. Thus, the $250,000, which...
...think the six members of Monty Python would find the format of a full-length movie inimical to their comic ideal. After all, they chafed under the minimal requirements of a half-hour television spot, shuffling the credits, titles, and skits in a restless assault on any prescribed structure for their product...