Word: ostrichism
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...former British Governor, Rex Hunt, who returned to the Falklands under the new administrative title of civil commissioner, last week donned his red tunic with the silver braid and put on his hat with the ostrich-feather plumes to open the first postwar session of the legislative council. He puckishly paraphrased Winston Churchill to thank the British liberators: "Never in the course of human conflict has so much been owed by so few to so many." Says an admiring islander of Hunt: "He knew us before, he knows our problems, he knows the way of life we had before...
Nobody objected in 1976, when the new owner of the At lanta Braves, a baseball team above which mediocrity loomed like a mountain crag, climbed aboard an ostrich before one game and galloped around the infield. It couldn't have hurt and it might have helped; if the ostrich could not actually execute the double play, neither could the Braves, and it was always possible that the bird would swallow the ball...
Liberal economists are relishing the Administration's plight. Says Walter Heller, onetime chief economic adviser to John F. Kennedy: "You really had to be an ostrich not to see this thing coming. It is not just the inherent contradictions within the program but the bitter rivalries between the monetarists, supply-siders and budget-balancers within the Administration, who are all out to influence policy...
...pieces of china for $209,508, or about $ 1,000 a place setting. For politicians, image is often everything. Just when a President is about to cut back on school lunches is not the time to buy teacups and start wearing cowboy boots made of calf and ostrich hide...
...supply-side incentives in combination with monetary policy that works through high interest rates and a powerful contraction of the economy. This contradiction can only be resolved by divine intervention-a task for the Moral Majority." Adds Walter Heller, who was President Kennedy's chief economist: "Only an ostrich could have missed the contradictions in Reaganomics...