Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Around the world, indeed, a question was being asked ever more insistently by foes, friends and even some U.S. diplomats: Does President Reagan really have a foreign policy? Supporters of the Administration argue that there are clearly defined major policy goals-to rebuild U.S. defenses, to repair old alliances and forge new ones with anti-Communist regimes, to confront the adventurist meddling of the Soviets and their clients-but that these have been somewhat obscured by indifferent execution. Critics contend that these apparent goals are really just a set of attitudes, that under Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig...
...Henry R. Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty, noted in his annual budget report last fall, "most of these savings ... were offset by unanticipated increases in the costs of building maintenance and repair." And so the Faculty's energy cutters are not relaxing their efforts to curb energy consumption...
...capital. A renovated Reconstruction Finance Corporation would direct huge subsidies to promising growth industries and bail out a few more important declining industries. In both cases, however, reindustrialization funds depend on workers agreeing to wage restraint. And according to Business Week, "destabilizing" goals such as affirmative action and environmental repair must be deferred, so as not to upset the "social compact...
...offered me his scarf. Enrolled in an institute of higher learning, he is exempt from military conscription. Nevertheless, he and his fellow students devote a few days each month to studies under the institute's department of war. On these days they wear green uniforms and learn how to repair jeeps and trucks. Like many Russians Borya wanted to know what American life is really like. Are salaries in the government sector lower than those in the private sector? I answered affirmatively. "Then it's true," he exclaimed, almost incredulous. "Our economics teacher was right. The American government exploits...
...that the Administration's ruthless budget cuts have destroyed. So it is all the more crucial that students, faculty, and administrators redouble their efforts on the legislative front, too--by rallying, voting, or lobbying Congress--in the hope of that Congress will be forced to turn against Reagan and repair some of the damage it has already done...