Word: outlooks
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...mountains between Christian and Muslim militias. Part of this legacy is a penchant for violence, a belief that the gun as much as the cross is a source of salvation. Says Professor Majid Fakhri of the American University of Beirut: "There is something very medieval about the Christian outlook. A type of feudalism exists in which politics and religion are intertwined in a literal...
...were saying. When the White House was preparing its budget message early last year, Feldstein and Stockman helped persuade the President, over objections from the supply-siders, to propose a contingency tax designed to boost revenues in 1985 if the deficits were still too high. Feldstein's austere outlook and recommendations earned him the nickname "Dr. Gloom...
...condition of many Blacks did not improve during this period. The Reagan Administration has virtually ignored the problem; indeed its retreat on civil rights enforcement and its budget cuts have exacerbated it. Yet even if a sympathetic Democrat such as Walter Mondale were to win office in 1984, the outlook for the Black poor still appears quite bleak. For the reinstatement of the traditional civil rights policies will probably not affect a large number of Blacks who will most likely remain below the poverty line, locked outside the mainstream of American society...
...latest Pentagon boo-boo falls into an all too predictable pattern of willful misrepresentation that has come to characterize the Weinbergian spending and procurement process. A curious mind set has come to accompany the staggering arms build up Weinberger and Reagan have embarked on an outlook that consistently underestimates the costs of the fancy weapons systems the Administration wants and consistently miscalculates the nature of the military threat posed by our adversaries...
...should humanity survive the initial shock of nuclear winter the study concludes the long term outlook remains pessimistic...