Word: reductionism
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Hughes hints obliquely at this tension in the book. Recalling work on Bush's first speech to Congress, she takes a mild swipe at the G.O.P.'s fixation on tax reduction. "I had worried that the initial drafts of the address had led with the proposed tax cuts," she writes...
>> Some readers thought the outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas should begin at the top. "Corporate executives should ship their own jobs abroad," wrote a Vermonter. "The savings would be much greater than a mere computer programmer's salary." A Utah reader warned that "the big shots don't realize it...
“There have been some changes that, you know, in the event of another year like last year, would lead to a significant reduction in top compensation levels,” Summers said in an interview Wednesday.
The salary cap reduction comes in the wake of increased scrutiny from alumni, who have called the fund manager payouts inordinate. A group of seven graduates in the Class of 1969, whose November letter to Summers drew newfound attention to the issue, reiterated their objections in another letter this month...
Columnist Charles Krauthammer's claim in "Medals Don't Make a President" that President John F. Kennedy was responsible for getting the U.S. into the Vietnam War was way off target [Feb. 23]. Kennedy was seeking to de-escalate the conflict. And the implication that Bush is somehow better equipped...