Word: quicksands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stepping into that political quicksand, the adroit Senate Majority Leader is attempting a most difficult feat. Baker is deftly challenging the economic beliefs of a President from his own party, while trying to preserve party unity. After leading Senate Republicans into solid support of Reagan's budget and tax policies last year, he is backing their resistance this year but trying to channel it to achieve a constructive compromise with the President. All the while, Baker is struggling to prevent chaotic fragmentation in a Congress in which undisciplined procedures and election-year insecurities work strongly against cooperative action on behalf...
...counter to American idealism. On this thesis, Americans must affirm general values or they will lack the resolution and stamina to overcome the Soviet challenge; America must commit itself to a crusade against Communism, not just to geopolitical opposition to Soviet encroachment, or its policy will be based on quicksand. But obsession with ideology may translate into an unwillingness to confront seemingly marginal geopolitical challenges because they appear not to encapsulate the ultimate showdown-and thus lead to a gradual erosion, risking world peace as surely as a failure to face an overall challenge...
...budget deficits on the cost of living; different interpretations of who is "truly needy." In an incredibly confusing numbers game, the competing players are juggling figures wildly. Their tables and projections are important - but more in political terms than economic ones. Even though the estimates seem as solid as quicksand, the two parties have similar destinations in mind, but want to arrive there by significantly different routes. The Democrats seek to protect more of their traditional social services, while the Republicans want deep cuts in these areas...
...life. Unfortunately, Shrinking Woman--in its last half hour--reneges on its tacit deal with the audience, degenerating from incisive social satire to the silly comedy-adventure shenanigans of a Gene Wilder--Richard Pryor movie. Director Joel Schumacher and scriptwriter Jane Wagner let the film slowly slide into the quicksand of banality, and they rely on the immeasurable talents of their star to keep Shrinking Woman's head above the slime...
...have played no part in the distinct downturn of the economy in the past year. The attempt to control inflation by tightening the money supply--cutting public spending and raising mid-range interest rates--has not worked, resulting only in 16 per cent interest rates, an economy mired in quicksand, and what promises to be a cold and turbulent winter...