Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right? To the dismay of mainstream economists, much of the evidence so far buoys the supply-side argument...
When Soloveitchik arrived on the American scene, the Orthodox Jews were isolated from mainstream society and seemed doomed to extinction in the U.S. Soloveitchik helped foster the growth of the movement by insisting that a Jew could remain both an observer of tradition and a full participant in Western culture. For him it has never been a pragmatic calculation but a belief that this was the very will...
Aside from Barry Goldwater's ill-fated 1964 campaign, and President Reagan's occasional Freudian slips over the years, no mainstream politician in the post-World War II era has ever voiced serious opposition to the welfare state. Until now, that is. And unless we start reexamining just why we have a welfare state at all, the Dolans and Kemps and Falwells of this country--all wonderfully at ease with hairspray and television--may very well persuade a majority of our countrymen that the welfare state, like the horse and buggy, is an ides whose timed has passed...
...Herbert Hoover, whom the magazine briefly touted as a presidential candidate for 1920. By the 1930s, the editorials were explicitly socialist. In 1946 former Vice President Henry Wallace became editor, before his left-wing campaign for President. But by 1952, the magazine had returned to the Democratic Party mainstream. Almost never profitable, it drew its funding from a succession of wealthy sponsors and its opinions from editors, including Walter Lippmann and Edmund Wilson. Peretz, a Harvard social sciences teacher who inherited some money and whose wife is an heiress, revamped both the magazine's politics and its eclectic cultural...
...trying to represent the views of the mainstream 95 percent of the economic profession," explains head section leaders Lawrence B. Lindsey. Yet for many students, Ec 10 is the only economics course they will ever take. How is it counterproductive to teach the other 5 percent, particularly in a year-long survey that covers everything from opportunity cost to international rates of exchange...