Word: revolutionize
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On its face, that seems fine. If we must have lobbyists, they might as well represent regular people, not just oil barons. The trouble is that regular people, like oil barons, are usually asking for money, whether in the form of crop subsidies for farmers, tax breaks for shopkeepers, Medicare...
Not to worry. In the Gingrich camp, optimism runs rampant. Alvin Toffler and a few other seers prepared a "Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age" for the Progress and Freedom Foundation, which supports Gingrich. The authors dismiss in Tofflerian language those who fret about social balkanization in cyberspace as "Second...
The quintessential Tofflers can be found in The Third Wave (1980), which Gingrich has called "one of the great seminal works of our time." The book's argument can easily be summarized. There have been three major changes, or waves, as the Tofflers like to call them, in human history...
Rush after the revolution is much like Rush before the revolution, an outsider content to stay there because it gives him a clearer shot and because, after all this success, he still thinks he won't find acceptance on the inside. Rather than be part of the Speaker's festivities...
But now the man who survived the persecution and chaos of the Cultural Revolution to set the country on the path toward reform cannot manage even ( this modest circumambulation: he can no longer walk or stand unaided. Yet in a way the methodical tally continues, if only in the anxious...