Word: kopkind
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Reich attracts both admirers and critics across the political spectrum. Andrew Kopkind writes in The Nation that the Reich-Clinton plan "does not touch the problem of a powerless, alienated and potentially disruptive work force." Conservatives, meanwhile, see Reich's call for more federal "investment" in education and infrastructure as merely an attractive new label for a bigger, more wasteful, more intrusive bureaucracy. Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prizewinning economist, predicts that the Reich-Clinton program "would destroy far more productive jobs than it would create, because it relies on more government spending and taxing." Jim Pinkerton, an iconoclastic Republican thinker...
...text is sprinkled with periodic errors in grammar, which do little to increase the book's credibility. To pick an example more or less at random, Andrew Kopkind's essay on "Living with the Bomb: The World According to Bok" reads: "When Harvard University encounters nuclear weaponry, they do so as equals," Even if Harvard were a "they," the two halves of the sentence wouldn't agree. Sloppy proofing cannot help but suggest sloppy thinking...