Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sugar-voiced deejays of 2 1/2 mania indignantly label Sullivan's charges "scare tactics." They provide two alternative scenarios: since 2 1/2 would allow the community to override the tax cuts by a 2/3 vote in a local election, they argue, residents will make sure there are still fire houses with the lights on. And anyway, they reason, 2 1/2 is only an attempt at tax reform; the state legislature can raise taxes and hand the money over to cities and towns, preserving services while ending the heavy dependence on property taxes...
...these tidbits that make this book absorbing reading. But Lyndon: An Oral Biographycan only be viewed as a montage of unconnected remembrances of the president. It offers no interpretation and much bias: it falls far short of the label biography
Bell, like several of his Harvard colleagues, has been labeled a neo-conservative, placing him in the company of Nathan Glazer (to whom The Winding Passage is dedicated), Sam Huntington and James Q. Wilson. Neo-conservatives worry about things like the breakdown of authority patterns, the political paralysis caused by manifold interest groups and the economic woes associated with greater state control over the economy. Bell denies the sobriquet "neo-conservative" to his students, but he clearly shares many concerns with those who actually do enjoy the label...
...survey--completed by about 2500 undergraduates at the five schools during the week of October 6--also shows that Ivy League students in general consider themselves slightly more moderate than do Harvard students. Whereas 45.6 per cent of Ivy Leaguers call themselves moderates and 34.8 liberals, Harvard undergraduates label themselves liberals and moderates in about equal numbers...
...Materialism. I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with a different collective label. But is that all? Is there nothing in here but molecules? Some people find this idea somehow demeaning to human dignity. For myself, I find it elevating that our universe permits the evolution of molecular machines as intricate and subtle...