Word: mainstream
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Such incidents have become less frequent if only because, as one foreign diplomat puts it, "the mullahs have wiped out practically anyone who is not a mainstream fundamentalist." According to opposition guerrillas, Khomeini's men have executed 30,000 dissidents in all, while keeping more than 100,000 political prisoners behind bars. The ruling mullahs admit to just 2,000 to 3,000 executions, but they have nonetheless systematically eliminated every group that does not conform to their beliefs. Last May they forced the Tudeh Communist Party to denounce itself publicly and disband. In August they suspended the Hojjatieh...
...past, that journey was arduous and often tragic for Soviet exiles, particularly for those poets and writers who fled their country after the 1917 Revolution. A few, like Vladimir Nabokov, joined the mainstream of modern literature and enriched it. A handful returned in desperation to the Soviet Union, only to perish hi Stalin's camps, like the eminent critic Dmitri Mirsky, or by suicide, as in the case of the great idiosyncratic poet Marina Tsvetayeva. Many remained stranded on alien shores where their writing disappeared with scarcely a trace...
...faculty position. At a gathering outside of his normal academic responsibilities John Womack surely has a right to criticise President Reagan (as has Richard Pipes, for example, in his support of Reagan), particularly in a political environment which effectively proscribes widespread dissemination of left-wing opinions on the mainstream political agenda...
Murray Weidenbaum, a mainstream conservative economist who served as the first chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, was never comfortable with the rosy claims made by the Administration's supply-siders, and resigned in the summer of 1982. To replace Weidenbaum and shore up the sagging credibility of Reaganomics, the White House turned to Feldstein, another conservative with strong credentials...
...supply-side movement, however, has had very little impact on the thinking of mainstream economists ranging from liberals like Barry Bosworth of the Brookings Institution to conservatives like Alan Greenspan, who served as President Ford's chief economic adviser. Traditional economists admit that many factors influence interest rates and that the stance of the Federal Reserve is perhaps the most important. But most would argue that if all other factors are held constant, the higher deficits go, the higher interest rates will ultimately be. The proposition is as simple as the law of supply and demand: if the Government...