Word: pursuits
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...parse everything he says," says Kleintop. That would be a welcome change from Greenspan's often indecipherable econospeak, which came to be known as "Greenspam." Bernanke, a family man who has served on his school's board, is also known to be slightly more tolerant of inflation in pursuit of policies that promote growth. He has argued for adopting an inflation target rate, and making it public, to help demystify the Fed. It's not clear what inflation target Bernanke favors. But it's probably something close to 2% in core prices-about the rate seen the past 12 months...
...question is whether either man can control his own partisans in the House, like Democratic whip David Bonior or Republican Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, which will look into just about everything labeled Bill and Hillary. If Democrats insist on a full-bore pursuit of Gingrich, Republicans will seek the blood of the Clintons later this year or next. Washington is not so different from ancient Rome. It may talk a lot about ethics, but revenge is the virtue it understands best...
...have Dawson’s number. “If anybody lets up, along any of the cracks, he’s such a good back he’ll find it,” said Big Red coach Jim Knowles. “So we really sold pursuit on him, and getting 11 helmets to the ball.” Though Harvard continued to hand off to Dawson in the hopes that he would break off one of his characteristic 70-yard runs, the junior’s longest run of the day was just 10 yards...
...concentrations (cough, economics!) who lack a “clear conception of the grounds of debate” upon which their entire field of study rests. He argues that students need to take a course that that seeks to get to the big questions about the purpose of scholarly pursuit. Ultimately, even if such a class focused largely on the Western canon (such as Plato, Smith, and Bacon—as Thorpe suggests), the debate around these classic texts would allow for a wide range of discourse...
...order to encourage true pursuit of wisdom, the College must, as Yagan argues...