Word: populistic
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...course, London officials had been making the same entreaties--for decades. And the campaign had gained new urgency with the Madrid bombings. Last week we were reminded that the populist strategy has its limitations. And so, the day after the bombings, London introduced controversial body-scan machines at the entrances to some subway stations. The machines see through clothing and detect anything that interferes with solar radiation reflected by people's bodies. But it will cost tens of millions of dollars to outfit every tube station. And it will, of course, do nothing to protect the sprawling bus system...
...star since Elvis Presley. Born in the U.S.A. has been a best-selling album for more than a year, and Bruce Springsteen is playing Super Bowl-size venues to accommodate old fans and new. Audiences sing the record's title track with anthemic fervor, but Springsteen remains an uncompromising populist and chronicler of the lost American promise...
Well, in the words of old Buddy Holiday, that'll be the day. Springsteen is a superstar, but he is also bent on being a populist, marrying the mythic dimensions of major celebrity to the kind of moral and social responsibility seldom found bobbing in the musical mainstream. "He's closer to his public image than any of the other rock stars I've known," says his friend and biographer Dave Marsh. "It's hard to accept, but the guy is all there in his music." Backstage at a concert, the atmosphere is a little more restrictive, less familial than...
...federal tax system keeps coming back for more punishment. Just when the idea has been battered to the canvas, it struggles to its feet again. Last week reform went another round, this time energized by a fresh proposal from the House Ways and Means Committee. Some of the populist ideals found in the Reagan Administration's two earlier proposals remain alive in this one. The bill would cut tax rates, close loopholes, give relief to millions of working poor people and make corporations carry a greater share of the load. Many business leaders, though, claimed that the bill would single...
...manager, Burr has a penchant for delivering sermons to his flock on how to do a better job. He zealously believes that his populist, everybody-is-important organization can make a better world, or at least a better kind of capitalism. Says William Hambrecht, a San Francisco financier whose firm helped Burr raise $24 million to start the company: "Don Burr is really operating from a philosophical base, rather than a financial one. Monetary success is almost incidental. He's after much more than that...