Word: preferments
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...world. Those who imply otherwise have an agenda -- and it is not to turn the U.S. into the world's policeman. It is to turn the U.S. into the world's bystander. If opposing injustice anywhere obliges us to become involved everywhere, then only a fool would not prefer involvement nowhere...
...antiwar movement truly believes that the war does not serve the interests of all Americans--and not just the interests of rich white Americans who would prefer not to visit the Middle East any time soon--then it should agitate to make the armed forces represent a real cross-section of America...
Most economists prefer to stress the uncertainty in the economy, but pin them down and their consensus is that growth should resume sometime in the second quarter. Not rapid growth -- perhaps at an annual rate of only 1% or 2%. But when it comes, it will be a welcome change from the 2.1% shrinkage in the last quarter of 1990. Precisely how soon the U.S. recession will end seems to depend most on whether the war is long or short. While the answer to that one is anybody's guess, America's investors have emphatically made a judgment...
Military officials refer to Nolte and his roving confreres as unilaterals. Reporters prefer to call them free-lancers. More bluntly, they are pool busters: reporters who are circumventing the superintended pool system imposed by the military to limit the number of journalists venturing into the Middle East battlefield. In the grand tradition of buccaneering war correspondents, these reporters are taking risks to give audiences a fuller picture of what is happening in the gulf...
...Living Color," after which I patterned my routine. I assume Mr. Templeton's failure to address the jokes aimed at Blacks was simply an oversight (an egregious one), and that he finds such self-parody offensive and not "politically correct." If that is the case, I would still much prefer to be "incorrect" any day, as I do not share such an outlook...