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Most economists recoil at Kemp's proposal that the U.S. tie its currency to a gold standard; that could leave the nation's money vulnerable to actions by the world's two largest gold producers, the a Soviet Union and South Africa. A return to the gold standard, warn some monetarists, could limit the Government's ability to control the money supply and trigger a deflation as crippling as that suffered in the Great Depression...
...called it "compassionate liberalism," Rothenberg tells us, and Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.), who has wrung it for all its worth, has dubbed it "Prairie Populist Jeffersonian democracy." A better term is "anything but"--that is, anything but the formulas of the New Deal, from which neoliberals recoil in horror. Despite his deadly earnest attempt, Rothenberg doesn't really help us in the quest for definition. Grouping as disparate politicians as North Carolina's Gov. James Hunt (a conservative in disguise). Timothy Wirth (a high-techie), and former California Gov. Jerry Brown (a flake) under the rubric of neoliberalism...
Most psychologists agree that rape is not a form of mental illness but a behavior problem rooted in emotional immaturity. Most discount the theory that rapists are latent homosexuals. Rapists usually recoil from the idea. As one put it, "Raping a woman, at least that's normal." (Rape crisis centers report a rise in the number of calls they are getting from men who have been raped by other men. The victims are both gay and straight men, as are the rapists.) Ironically, most rapists are sexually naive and embrace conservative sexual attitudes...
...Angeles' Gulliver's Travels. "They know the small hotels, the little restaurants. They're not buying the highly touted places any more." The American tourist redux is more worldly in his activities and tastes, particularly when it comes to food and wine. He does not recoil from snails, eels and sweetbreads as he once did, orders tortellini ai funghi porcini with authority, and often chooses a vintage he knows from back home...
Like the condemned man of the anecdote, most Americans still recoil instinctively from any kind of mushroom that is not snow white, cellophane wrapped and supermarket sanitized. In the past few years, however, the succulent edible fungi that grow wild for the picking in almost every part of the country have found ever increasing acceptance in restaurant and home menus. At Dean & DeLuca, a Manhattan gourmet emporium that sells up to 100 Ibs. of fresh domestic wild mushrooms a week, Produce Purchasing Manager Lee Grimsbo notes, "People are beginning to think of them as a cooking item rather than something...