Word: pundits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...described as the short-term effects of a healthy long-term growth in productivity, real wages and standard of living. I rushed to the library to reread The New York Times, in the hope of finding some indication that my line of thought had been considered by some optimistic pundit. Alas, I found nothing but gloom and doom in the articles themselves. But in a sidebar that featured the opinions of various experts in business and economics, I found a rumination that cheered me greatly. The particular expert being quoted was Bill Gates. "Men and women are worried that their...
According to Cambridge pundit Glen S. Koocher '71, Duehay made local history by crossing over from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and supporting Alliance candidate Sheila T. Russell, even though the Alliance for Change and the CCA candidates had four votes each...
...other words, American politics for the last 5 years, at least, has been in a state of perpetual upheaval. That is why E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist and pundit, has the audacity to predict a Progressive revival in his new book, They Only Look Dead. "They" are progressives, liberals and Democrats, whose defeat in 1994 Dionne sees as the darkest hour before the dawn...
...ELECTION YEAR, BEWARE THE pundit or politician tossing about the word "values." Remember to ask the key question, "Whose values?" In the case of Ben J. Wattenberg, whose new book, Values Matter Most (Free Press; 426 pages; $25), has already managed to grab a few headlines, that question is as tangled as ever...
...goes again. Just when White House aides were recovering from President Clinton's recent off-the-cuff remarks that he'd raised taxes too much and that the nation was in a "funk," the President has confounded Democrats once more by confiding his self-doubts to a conservative pundit. During his hour-long phone call Wednesday with Ben Wattenberg, according to The New York Times, Clinton said he was dissatified with his own welfare reform proposal and distressed that he had wandered from a moderate democratic philosophy. "This is Bill Clinton once again thinking out loud about his conclusion that...