Word: leviathan
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...economic self-interest; it also lets them showcase a less ideological conservatism that they insist voters want in the 21st century. For the camp that includes South Carolina's Mark Sanford, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, and Texas' Rick Perry, the legislation is a federal leviathan that lets them display faithfulness to the roots of the GOP as a Big Government slayer. "Rather than devote an unprecedented number of dollars to expanding government," Perry said last week, "they should stimulate the economy with something that actually works: tax cuts." (Read about what is a stimulus and what...
...shining moments. But the whole thing takes so much attention to run that they don’t have time for partisan trickery.“We’re pilots,” Manor said. “There’s basically this enormous leviathan of controls, and we’re paying no attention to the passengers. We’re just trying to bring the plane in for a safe landing.”Their technique was flawless. On top of the sentence-layering program, called “Remember When I Said...
...presidency has thus far been rather tranquil, at least on the political front; most of his promised reforms have wilted before the French Leviathan. The real story has been of the prurient tabloid variety: Sarkozy’s romantic liaison and subsequent marriage to Italian supermodel Carla Bruni. As the two gallivanted around Paris and jetted to the Middle East, Europeans were titillated. Americans, by contrast, looked on in disbelief as Sarkozy flaunted his extramarital relationship with a gorgeous diva, the former lover of Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Donald Trump, who openly boasts of her “preference?...
...Regardless of the motive, the corporate acquisition of the Collegian bodes poorly for its future. The student press loses its characteristic vitality and pedagogical power when it is regarded merely as a limb of a profit-minded corporate leviathan...
This week, over 100 sophomores who have enrolled in Social Studies 10a, the first half of what was a year-long tutorial, will crack open their copies of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan and learn that “during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre [sic].” And perhaps some will wonder whether the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies read their tutorial’s first assigned book themselves, for the concentration seems to rather lack a degree...