Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure, the costs of this military buildup have been immense on both sides, and in the end this may be a Pyrrhic "victory" for the U.S. The money which the Pentagon has consumed coupled with general American consumerism, has left little for the levels of investment needed to maintain American economic--and thus, over the long term, diplomatic and military--hegemony...
...Chung, is hurting. Staff morale is low, and some warn that the network's tightfisted attitude will doom it to the news-ratings cellar. Gartner insists that NBC is not opposed to paying high salaries to the right people but argues, almost quaintly, that by rejecting Chung's money demands, the network cast a vote for old-fashioned news values. "For $2 million," he says, "you can buy an awful lot of journalistic horsepower." True enough. But in the high-stakes world of TV news, a strong bench doesn't often win a pennant...
...Founding Fathers, in their wisdom -- and more pointedly, their experience -- distrusted standing armies. They associated British ones with tyranny and lacked the money and manpower to create their own. Without a citizens' militia, the Revolution would have failed. Does the Constitution let you have the second half of the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms, without the first part, the intended use of those arms in the exercises and, when necessary, the campaigns of a citizens' militia to which the gun owner belongs -- as in Switzerland today? That is still very much a subject for legal debate...
...chopped meat at close-to-medium range, and anyone who needs a banana clip with 30 shells in it to hit a buck should not be hunting at all. These guns have only two uses: you can take them down to the local range and spend a lot of money blasting off 500 rounds an afternoon at silhouette targets of the Ayatullah, or you can use them to off your rivals and create lots of police widows. It depends on what kind of guy you are. But the N.R.A. doesn't care -- underneath its dumb incantatory slogans ("Guns...
...there was more of a willingness to pay for maintaining the environment, we wouldn't have to rely on bureaucratic whim." It is evident that Willey and Graff believe in their neo-capitalist approach. The bottom line then naturally presents itself: Gentlemen, what do we get for our money...