Word: neither
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jekyll-and-Hyde-like transformation from well-mannered writer to party animal and back again has led some to wonder which is the real McGuane. Both and neither, answers McGuane, who is irked by the fact that his wild and crazy days have taken on "a kind of monster reality" in the press. "During that period I was supposed to be living in the street, I also wrote ten movies, a novel and about 25 pieces of journalism," he says with annoyance. "Even in the flamboyant period of the '70s, I would say 85% of my waking time was spent...
...public policy among PBHA volunteers. But PBHA's leadership has gone beyond political discourse. The cabinet of PBHA recently endorsed an electoral position. And last February, as Ehrenreich wrote in The Independent, the cabinet granted themselves the option to consider endorsing candidates for public office. PBHA should do neither...
...there is more to the famous and no longer hypothetical "German question" than that. Neither the population nor the size of a united Germany would necessarily result in instability; it is not as though the two countries would attain critical mass if they were fused. Rather, the X factor in the debate, largely unmentionable among statesmen but deeply felt among their constituents, concerns the crimes and punishment of the German nation. Many Europeans, including most Soviets, would prefer to let the next generation, or even the one after that, test fully the proposition that 70 years of German expansionism, culminating...
...Europe. Then its defeat led to 44 years of postwar tension. Now events in that same nation are complicating the effort to end the division of the Continent as a whole. Because of the German question, the world is stuck in the pre- post-postwar era, which is neither a felicitous phrase nor a welcome state of affairs...
Granted, building a home or installing a pool isn't exactly "spending" the way flying to Rio is -- the home has lasting value. But neither is it a productive investment that makes the economy more efficient and competitive for the future...