Word: proportionate
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Media hype is ahistorical. Intimate electronic magnification causes the present vividness and trauma to override memory and the rational sense of historical proportion. We have all lived with the media effect for a long time and have made our inner adjustments to it. The trouble is that the left brain...
A week after the Valentine's Day call from Lowell, Dresner was in Moscow. The Yeltsin campaign was at sea. Five candidates, led by Communist Gennadi Zyuganov, were ahead of Yeltsin in some polls. The President was favored by only 6% of the electorate and was "trusted" as a competent...
Here, on the other hand, it often seems that all eight million of your fellow citizens are in your face, all the time. I thought Cambridge's streets were chaotic until I realized that, in Harvard Square, the drivers (grudgingly) stop when you run across the street; on Third Avenue...
One reason the public is cynical about government is the belief that money buys influence in proportion to the gift. And no type of campaign giving is larger than so-called soft money, which flows without limit from labor unions, corporations and wealthy individuals to the national parties. Direct gifts...
"We do a lot to show what alternatives there are to academic jobs for people who decide they don't want one or can't get one," Newhouse says. "A greater proportion of the people I see are looking for alternatives."