Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biography of the noted author T.S. Garp, from his conception in the hospital where his anonymous soldier father, tail gunner Garp, is slowly dying and his independent mother Jenny is working as a nurse, to his assassination on the mats of the Steering School, his Putney-like alma matter, and where he serves as wrestling coach. He is shot by an Ellen Jamesian as he tweets his whistle and boys grapple around...
...debate has been conducted. When dozens of workers are killed in an oil refinery explosion, no one suggests that we abandon the use of fossil fuels. When a water pipe in a nuclear reactor develops a hairline fracture, hysteria follows. Nuclear reactor safety is a highly quantitative and technical matter. It is high time that responsible journalism calls for rational discourse...
...John Hill, whom he derides as a "claims lawyer and a career politician." When Hill accused Clements of resorting to "Nixon-style Watergate tricks," the Republican replied: "Hill seems a little sensitive to me." The main campaign issue is how to spend the state's $3 billion surplus; no matter which candidate wins, the taxpayers are sure to get some relief...
...Patriotic Front. We offered a place to Nkomo on the Executive Council but he turned it down. He wants to come back as the appointed leader of the transitional government. But that is the crux of the matter: he must be elected. If he had any sense, he would have come in at the beginning. But the longer he stays out, the more he loses his internal support...
Burgeoning factionalism has a healthy side: it draws fresh people into public activity. Yet no matter how well it satisfies particular narrow causes, sooner or later it must damage larger public values. Eventually, as Political Scientist Norman Ornstein of Washington's Catholic University puts it, "You have too many decision makers and too many groups trying to exercise a veto over decisions, and with that you reach a paralysis in government." In the extreme, there could be worse things than paralyzed government. There could come a breaking of that basic spirit of accommodation and mutual respect that...