Word: maximalism
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...candidates, of course, always try to find and define what matters, but the voters do not always pay heed: on the morning after, national trends are often difficult to discern in mid-term elections. There is a certain wisdom in House Speaker Tip O'Neill's maxim that "all politics is local." Yet across the country this fall, the campaign cacophony of pointing with pride and viewing with alarm will largely focus on where the action has been the past two years: the state of the economy and the remarkable shift in domestic policy inaugurated by Reagan...
...health boom has undoubtedly helped to popularize the Italian national dish. Some nutritionists consider it a diet food. Despite the Italian maxim Quel che non ammazza ingrassa (What doesn't kill you fattens you), plain pasta contains no more calories than rice or potatoes. It has protein, phosphorus, calcium, niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, iron and potassium, but is low in sodium...
STUDENT AND TENANT activists may come and go, but Harvard always endures. University officials fully realize this maxim of Harvard politics, and use it to their advantage in devising "problem-solving" strategies. Those critics who attempt to force change on the University thus face the formidable task of achieving reform in a perilously short time span...
Arms control has a complicated history. In the earliest days of the nuclear age, some concerned scientists had argued that unilateral restraint would induce the Soviets to follow suit. There was not the slightest proof that the Soviets operated by such a maxim, and overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown said during the Carter Administration: "We have found that when we build weapons, they build; when we stop, they nevertheless continue to build...
...those who write letters of reference. The committee's report called for a few concrete changes--suggesting that letters be addressed to specific individuals and that authors describe their relationships with the doctors under consideration. But the core of the report--its "golden rule" policy--confirms the ancient maxim that sometimes nothing is as difficult to see as the obvious. The proposed code--which would require anyone writing a letter of recommendation to include all information that he would like to know were he to receive the letter--seems little more than "common sense...