Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the hullabaloo is, quite frankly, rhetorical diatribe stemming from a fear on the part of most Americans to examine something considered as wholesome as apple pie: making inordinate profits at the expense of others, Let's face it. It's un-American to come out and say that bankers, industrialists and politicians should consider the welfare of others when they determine economic policy...
...industry. Says Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee: "Deregulation poses the greatest threat to the continued existence of a network of small and medium-size community banks. The claims [by the large banks] that deregulation is as good as ice cream and apple pie are beginning to wear thin." Donald Nutt, president of Baldwin State Bank ($25 million) in Baldwin City, Kans., frets about depersonalization. Says Nutt: "It's easy for the big banks to lose the human touch...
...loudest and most persistent calling for textbook reform. In his own state, below fifth grade a zoo story may not include such words as beaver, parrot, goat - and zoo. A California anti-junk-food lobby's taboo still limits references to ice cream, cake and pie. "I'm all for good eating," says Illinois Reading Specialist Jean Osborn, "but for a child in a story not to be able to have a birthday cake...
...Instead, they contend, the prelates call for Government solutions that already have been tried and found wanting. Said Novak: "In a document that's supposed to be antistatist, it's amazing how many passages are from a statist framework." Adds Simon: "What we need is a larger pie, not a redistribution of the existing one. We threw a trillion dollars at poverty, and we have more poverty now than ever before...
...current Democratic hand-wringing fits in nicely with a powerhouse Gary W. Hart candidacy in 1988, and the Democratic Party must use the freedom of utter defeat to build upon the neoliberal agenda the Colorado Senator set forth this spring. Those of us brought up on Mom, Apple Pie and the New Deal must lower our turned-up noses and realize that neoliberalism, whatever we think of it, will be part and parcel of the Democratic geist for years to come...