Word: obvious
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Many of the people the group considered were simply not willing to be the first Black candidate for president." The risks inherent in a Black mounting a serious campaign for president are significant," he says. "They range all the way from the obvious physical danger--the danger of assassination--to the fact that this is not the kind of thing that the political establishment of this country really welcomes with open arms. So people who felt they had a stake, for example, in the Democratic party saw this--the idea of a Black running or even supporting a Black...
...smiles when he says it, but in fact the game has some serious resonance for him. "You find a word, but you don't stop," he explains. "You're constantly looking for alternatives, never settling for the obvious." McFerrin, 38, has been a musician for all his professional life and a singer for more than a decade. From his first big-time gig, playing piano in the Ice Follies band, to his current in-concert, one-man musical parody of The Wizard of Oz, he has never settled for anything less than unique...
...Discrimination is just as wrong in Congress as it is anywhere else." That statement from California Democrat Leon Panetta may seem obvious, but it has taken the House almost a quarter-century to accept it. In legislating the 1964 Civil Rights Act and all other laws imposing obligations on employers, Congress made itself exempt. Why? Some members lamely asserted that, well, Congress is "different." Others offered a legalistic excuse: having an executive agency regulate its employment practices would violate the separation of powers...
...most obvious difference is the forward pass. The ball can only be passed laterally, or backwards, in rugby...
...than closely targeted approaches to the problems of the poor: "In the 1970s I would have said we should have a guaranteed annual income. I don't say that now. We have learned that blunt instruments don't work." Making the income tax system more progressive would seem an obvious step, but economists warn that it has its limits. Says Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution: "There are estimates suggesting that if we raise tax rates on people making more than $40,000, they will actually work harder. Unfortunately, they will probably also work harder to avoid taxes." Indeed...