Word: maximalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...correspondent. Heit has traditionally been a he-dashes from one cosmopolitan capital to another by first-class jetliner or Orient Express-style railway compartment; he puts up at such elegant hostelries as Claridge's in London or the Plaza Athénée in Paris, dining at Maxim's or its local equivalent; he hobnobs with celebrities and is on intimate terms with heads of government...
...secondly, Harvard (11-4) proved the veracity of the NCAA poll when it kicked Yale's collective gluteus maxim last Saturday morning, sending the pups back to New Haven without any scraps from the NCAA's table...
...right to communicate their disapproval of a speech, he makes a useful analogy to suggest that this right exists only in so far as it does not interfere with a "speaker's ability to communicate and the rights of other members of the audience to listen," Bok invokes the maxim: "Your freedom to swing your first stops at the point of my nose." Bok could have gone further; absent is perhaps the most potent argument against the hecklers--that the democracy they epitomize is one in which the loudest voices prevail, which is no democracy to speak...
...infringe unjustifiably on the rights of others. That point arises when the heckling and protests interfere with the speaker's ability to communicate and the rights of other members of the audience to listen. This is simply another application of the principle that gave rise to the celebrated maxim: "Your freedom to swing your fist stops at the point of my nose." This principle does not deprive anyone of the right to communicate. If persons opposed to a speaker's policies wish to publicize that fact they can do so in various ways that will not interfere with the rights...
...rich get richer and the poor get poorer. That unpleasant maxim seems to sum up the message of The Reagan Record, a 400-page study released last week by the Urban Institute, a respected nonpartisan think tank in Washington...