Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Knee-jerk declarations that "Morris must be prosecuted, both to punish his unlawful actions and to deter future hackers" present a simplistic solution to complex questions that legal and computer experts and ethicists are still debating...
...Minutes have been called prosecutorial, but they at least come armed with sheaves of evidence. The hot-button journalists of The Reporters and other tabloid shows pursue their prey with little more than inflammatory narration and lurid "re- creations" of the crime. The appeal is to knee-jerk emotions, fears and fantasies of revenge...
Andrew Osborne's portrayal of the near-perfect jerk Shelley Levine also turned my head. Levine's voice booms at the most tactless moments, and he waves his cigar mercilessly at anyone within striking distance. Osborne turns lines meant simply for character development into some of the best lines in the show, and he interrupts Williamson and even himself frequently and flawlessly: "There's more than one man for the...Put a...wait a second, put a proven man out...and you watch, now wait a second--and you watch your dollar volumes." His moods, ranging from quavering confidence...
...government spending, Simon is not afraid to call for defense cuts and more social programs. His program is straight from another era, when government provided for all strata of citizenry. His one troubling position--in favor of a balanced budget amendment--is hardly motivated by the platitudinous and knee-jerk reasons given by the other candidates who favor the amendment. Correctly, Simon observes that unbalanced budgets raise interest rates and in that way facilitate one of the largest income transfers--from poor to rich--supported by the Reagan administration. Even if the legislation would curtail important flexibility in the budget...
Faced with a case of the government exercising prior restraint, the press rushed to the defense of its first principles, attacking White's decision. Paradoxically, in this knee-jerk reaction, the press also forgot some of its first principles, for White was articulating a defense of autonomous control by newspaper owners, while Brennan hinted at an interpretation which would undermine the autonomy of the owners...