Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phillips curve. The first is that occasional economic slowdowns are unavoidable; the second is the principle that there is a trade-off between policies to prevent recession and policies to prevent inflation. Antirecession medicines are pleasant, even addictive, while anti-inflation medicines are not, and Presidents always prefer the former. The moral challenge for our society is not to squander the Fed's tremendously costly victory over the inflation of the early 1980s. Any program of reviving investment and savings depends on having a stable currency...
...There will be new talks, and eventually they will succeed. Whether it is strikes or war, even the biggest battles in history have ended sitting down at a table. What is better -- to be a boxing champion or a chess champion? I prefer chess. And I don't have any doubt that eventually we will...
...example, Len Downie, currently the Managing Editor of The Washington Post and a highly respected member of the journalistic community says he has not voted in a single political election since taking over his job. In an interview with a Washington magazine, he even said that he would prefer that none of his campaign reporters voted...
...neighboring Thailand for a visa, looking into chartering a plane to take him and Tucci secretly into the capital, and even contacting tribal chieftains inside Burma to guide them through their territory on foot. This month Stewart and Tucci finally made it into Rangoon, the capital, by means they prefer, for the moment, to keep to themselves...
...love, the kind that survives the unpaid orthodontist bill and the lawn grown weedy, cannot be shown on the nightly news. So the candidates will continue to confuse the Dynasty-type desire with devotion, as in this recent swipe by Dukakis: "Democrats tend to sleep in double beds. Republicans prefer twins." The body politic can live without a response to that...