Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another powerful image: Wall Street millionaires arrested for insider trading and taken off in handcuffs. Not long ago, the "go for it" mentality of untrammeled capitalism was a virtue in the culture of Reaganism. Now that culture is being questioned. The Rambo story, which was a cartoon of Reaganism's...
Psychological benefits have also been documented. Troubled teenagers, for example, are more likely to open up when a therapist brings a dog along. Carol Antoinette Peacock, a psychologist in Watertown, Mass., starts treatment of new adolescent patients with an introduction to her dog Toffy. "It helps them to trust me...
In some of the comment and columns out of Washington there is now a patronizing note of we-tried-to-tell-you-but-you-wouldn't-listen. James Reston of the New York Times, dean of Washington columnists, has accused the American public of taking the Fifth Amendment, blaming everybody...
What about volume? "I don't think they know the meaning of the word 'sieve'," Kaufman answers.
THE LAST time I wrote a column on words and terms I didn't know the meaning of, I got a scathing letter explaining the meanings of these words. Those of you who read the letter may have found the definitions even more confusing than the terms themselves. Me too...