Word: nostrums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite its post-budget bill voguishness, the line-item veto will not become a reality anytime soon. "It is something that neither this President nor any other President should have," says Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. "It is a quack nostrum." As House Majority Leader Thomas Foley of Washington has suggested, the deficit crisis is essentially a matter of willpower. The White House, the Congress and the American public must decide together to make the sacrifices necessary to reduce the deficit. Until that time, ideas like the line-item veto will remain irrelevant oldies...
...budget freeze. "It isn't the best policy," he said last week. "But it is easily understood and can sell politically." But that is still a profile in courage compared to Bush, whose only tangible proposal is to slash the capital-gains taxes to 15%. This leftover supply-side nostrum, also endorsed by Kemp, would destroy the tax-reform principle that earned and unearned income should be treated alike...
...culturally eccentric that it may make the paintings look even less accessible than when they were seen as "pure" form. Yet the timing of this show is brilliant. Like late Imperial Rome, modern America is riddled with superstition, addicted to gurus, Sibyls and purveyors of every kind of therapeutic nostrum. One does not need a planchette to deduce that an exhibition which demonstrates as clearly as this one how great painters like Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky conceived their art in terms of thought forms, astral vibrations and hidden cosmic symbolism is bound to attract a far larger audience than...
...choral group in a rendition of "Dominum Salvum Fac," which is the traditional presidential song because it includes the phrase nostrum presidentae, "our president." The laughter this generated attracted a wandering television crew, which unfortunately missed outon the chance to catch Bok with his baton up. Bokand his assistant maestros had already returned toMassachusetts Hall...
...credibility on Capitol Hill and in the business community plunge after the recession of 1981-82, when he stubbornly insisted that the economy would come "roaring back" in the near future and stage "one of the greatest recoveries in history." Critics charge that he accepts any economic nostrum that strikes the President's fancy and sells it as one more way of getting "bullish on America," the corporate slogan that was instituted while he was president of Merrill Lynch. Says Congressman Fernand St. Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee: "Donald Regan faithfully implemented whatever Reagan Administration economic policy...