Word: saliently
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Simon's recurring worry that the financing of large federal deficits will crowd out private investment from the capital markets also ignores the salient facts. Most of this year's deficit and over $50 billion of next year's estimated $70 billion deficit is attributable simply to a weak economy. The Congressional Budget Office, for example, points out that every extra one per cent of unemployment increases the deficit by approximately $16 billion because of lower tax receipts and higher outlays for unemployment compensation. This part of the deficit doesn't crowd out private credit. It merely compensates...
...meagerly defended by nice ones." Nasty or nice, honest men could disagree about the China experts' judgment, but it was their loyalty that was frenetically attacked. They were railroaded out of the Foreign Service, or at best shunted off to obscure posts far from Asia. Their salient fault was to have reported on China as they saw it: America's ally, Chiang Kaishek, looked to them like a loser in 1944, and the Communists, with their grass-roots appeal, like winners. Later, during the early 1950s, the investigators willfully confused prediction with preference until it became plausible...
...exhibit is literally many-sided, and it has to he described in terms of the overlapping considerations of its concept, content and design. It attempts to give a comprehensive yet necessarily selective presentation of salient aspects of women's historical growth and role transformation in Boston over the last two centuries. Hiestand has chosen to marshall portions of the vast body of information available to her into six separate groupings: "Dress," "Law," "Work," "Health," "Feminism" and "Education." Her writer-assistant, Marjorie Waters, with a team of three historians, sifted through the voluminous subject choosing those quotes, facts and observations which...
...resurgence of the collapsible aluminum pointer, that riding crop of bureaucratic status. All up and down the ranks, the pointers were extended with sharp clicks, the desk officers and colonels whacking the charts authoritatively as they explained the fluid fronts, slapping their trouser legs to drive home salient points...
Howard A. Kahn '78, a member of the ERG, said yesterday that the subcommittee chose the five areas of inquiry after considering which issues are "most salient to the student body, parallel to the issues brought up in Dean Rosovsky's letter to the faculty...