Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article "The Good Life at Gitmo" [Oct. 15] was rather short. If you had written about the miserable life on Guantanamo Bay, it would have been substantially longer. It might have mentioned such problems as the unavailability of supplies, fresh produce and clothing, and low morale. I don't agree with you totally that the serviceman is reluctant to leave after completion of assignment because of the base services and freshwater sports. My conclusion, after talking to my peers during a year at Gitmo, is that, whatever the discomforts, they would rather do a tour of duty...
Kucinich is really 32 and has a "lovely wife" in the best political tradition. He can't help being baby-faced and short. Nor is he responsible for the school board president's mooning from a car on the highway. Likewise, the mayor had no way of knowing that the day he made a symbolic bank withdrawal that his disturbed brother would rob another bank. But the most important spectacle for which Kucinich has been unfairly blamed is the financial collapse of the city of Cleveland...
...would never have guessed that election time is still more than a year away, since Republican presidential hopefuls Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.) and George H.W. Bush yesterday swept through Boston on short campaign hops...
...everybody's favorite panacea to unemployment induced by more efficient foreign competition. While the pressures of free trade displace only a relatively small segment of the domestic labor force, these unemployed are highly visible, and in the context of high unemployment, a democratic government is hard pressed to adopt short-term palliatives. Producers like protectionism because it is a form of government support which interferes least in their affairs. Workers in declining industries like it because it saves their jobs. The government likes it because it is a form of assistance that requires little expenditure. But the only groups protectionism...
...election year when the economy is suffering from rising unemployment, American workers might be tempted to vote for the politicians who promise to safeguard their jobs in the short-run by restricting imports. But over the long haul, such a policy will only hurt these workers as consumers. And worse, scrapping free trade ultimately will erode the long-term welfare of the American worker, which protectionist politicians claim so vigorously to protect...