Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Returning money to people who are already middle-class or higher through a tax cut merely increases the demand for luxury goods, without resolving any of the serious issues that face our country. The past seven years have produced tremendous financial gains. It is now time to use that money on those who need it. The bull market has placed the United States at the top of the financial ladder. Perhaps now, we can turn our attention to those who were left behind...
...think any serious candidate will be opposed to [the increase]," said Paul A. Gusmorino '02, "but there will be opposition about whether the money should go to student groups, or to the council for Springfest-type things, or some other clever idea that hasn't been thought...
...charge for nearly 50 years--but nothing justifies the degree of sheer pitilessness that the U.N.'s biggest, richest and most important member has shown toward the world body since the mid-'80s. That's when the U.S. decided to cut back on paying its U.N. dues, got serious about slashing the organization's bloat, held funding for the U.N. hostage to abortion politics and allowed the U.S. to begin accumulating well over $1 billion in arrears...
...father who ordered the bombing of the city where his son was held prisoner. Bush talks of compassion and those prosperity leaves behind; McCain of courage and the forces of evil at work in the "City of Satan." Bush, all lightness of being, struggles to be viewed as serious enough for the job; McCain, all coiled conviction, is so intense he has to struggle to be seen as normal. Both want to make over the Republican Party: one says he wants to give it a heart; the other says he wants to give it a conscience. Put them together...
...policy goals and has stuck to his agenda with remarkable discipline. But on the national stage these past eight months, a competing image of Bush has appeared--that of a cautious, staff-dependent candidate, likable but lacking gravitas, who sounds out of his depth on some of the most serious policy issues a President must consider. Last week reporters pounced on the fact that he failed an interviewer's pop quiz by not knowing the leaders of three out of four world hot spots--Chechnya, India and Pakistan.* (He got right the leader of Taiwan, Lee Teng-hui.) But more...