Word: prunings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what other area of life would we demand that any one person fulfill such a huge multiplicity of needs? No one would ask his or her accountant to come by and prune the shrubbery, or the pediatrician to take out the garbage. Everywhere else we observe a strict division of labor; only in marriage do we demand the all-purpose, multivalent, Renaissance person...
...students, they may actually emerge stronger than ever. "What we are witnessing is the death of the 19th century research university," says David Scott Kastan, chairman of Columbia's department of English and comparative literature. Such institutions are enormously inefficient, but there are good ways and bad ways to prune them. "There's the democracy-of-pain option," he explains, "whereby you cut across the board, which runs a terrible risk of mediocritizing and demoralizing the university. Or you can make more selective cuts, which require real leadership...
...refinery center on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay, Gladys Parks, 76, and her husband Bruce, 81, have seen the city go from white to black, then to Hispanic and Asian, and finally to mixed-white again on the gentrifying edge of the city. Bruce, a Stockton-born "prune picker," as native Californians are called, recalls having real misgivings when the "coloreds" first came to town during World War II. Today he and Gladys call the black family next door the best neighbors they've ever had. They've become such friends with their Chicano gardener that they...
Days after settling into her office, Richards began to prune and energize the bloated bureaucracy and "make government mean something in people's lives." She quickly imposed a hiring freeze and pushed a sweeping audit of state operations to eliminate such excesses as the 16 separate agencies that deliver health and human services, including the several panels that administer Medicaid to the poor...
...answer, in part, is that despite the higher stakes involved in a military venture, the President, Congress and the American people find it easier to embark on a foreign crusade than to agree on solutions to complex domestic problems. Any attempt to raise taxes or prune an established domestic program, no matter how costly, ineffectual or obsolete, raises howls of outrage from those it benefits. Bush is experienced and confident on international relations. The issue and the threat to U.S. interests in the gulf are clear. On domestic affairs, he holds few strong personal views. Having transformed himself from...