Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK:Kramer's goal was his 10thof the season, giving him a team-leading 22points...Penn made a mere five shots to theCrimson's 19...Quaker goalie Mark Tepper had threesaves...The Penn game was originally scheduled fornext weekend, but the contest was moved up so itcould be played before post-season playoff berthswere determined...Official word on NCAA bids willbe announced this morning, with Harvard theodds-on favorite for the top seed in the NewEngland region
...money is directly related to and established by continuous mutual need. People work for money to buy things that other people make or do, things that they cannot or will not make or do for themselves but that they deem necessary for some definition of self-improvement. The mere existence of other people creates a market for goods; a market for goods, a potential source of human betterment...
Americans, dazed by the seizures on the world's stock markets, looked to the White House for . . . what? At the least, for an acknowledgment of the reality and the fear. Suddenly a door to the future had been blown open, and what the world saw (or was it mere hallucination?) seemed frightening. A glimpse of monsters out there in the dark. People looked for a stirring of presidential energy, for both substance and symbol to announce that the most powerful office in the world was alive to the danger. What the world needed was focus, intelligence, communication. It needed...
Leadership is always somewhat mysterious. Ronald Reagan's leadership was fascinating. The author Garry Wills wrote, "Reagan runs continuously in everyone's home movies of the mind. He wrests from us something warmer than mere popularity. A kind of complicity. He is, in the strictest sense, what Hollywood promoters used to call 'fabulous.' We fable him to ourselves, and he to us. We are jointly responsible...
Feelings of suspicion and cynicism linger long after the many statistics are forgotten. Ironically, the editors seem to lament the lack of meaningful political debate in America, yet rely on mere numbers to make their points. Stalin once bragged that "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic." What does that make the 1159 statistics in the Harper's Index? The stuff of fun conversation, maybe, but also cause for alarm...