Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they settled into the first weeks of the semester, there were many surprises. At Middlebury, Sergey Plyasunov, 22, has discovered what it is like to study the Soviet Union "from the other side." Says he: "I find out things that I didn't learn in my own country about the highest powers like Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev." Not all the teaching goes unchallenged. At Wheaton, Sabyrova takes issue with an American textbook that describes the Soviet economy as entirely planned. "It is wrong," she insists. "With economic reform there are a lot of changes in our country." Meanwhile at Oberlin...
...disproportionate share of the defense of Europe and Japan, which is a subsidy to middle-class foreigners. But merely to list these is to build a monument to hopelessness. That's why, for all the candidates' bluster, salvation will probably come, if at all, on the revenue side...
...supply-side Pollyannas predicted that lower tax rates would induce huge increases in saving and investment, which would produce enormous growth, which would wipe out the deficits. They were wrong. Net private saving, which averaged 8.1% of GNP in the 1960s and 1970s, dropped to 5.8% in the 1980s. (It was 4.1% last year.) Investment in new plant and equipment averaged 3.3% of GNP in 1950-80 and 2.3% during the 1980s. Economic growth averaged 4.8% in the 1960s, 2.8% in the 1970s and 2.2% in the 1980s. And we know what happened to the deficit...
...that lampooned Bush aide Atwater as dictating the message of the day to a network news director. Similarly, Estrich, who kept her title in the Dukakis campaign while yielding to Sasso responsibility for shaping the campaign's message, claims, "The campaign staff is far more important on the Republican side, where the pollsters and the media advisers are running things and where the Vice President seems willing to do anything they...
When Baker arrived as planned at Bush headquarters after the G.O.P. convention, he confronted problems far less dire than those that would later bedevil Sasso. One reason: as Tutwiler points out, the top Bush handlers have all fought side by side before. Until Baker took over, this teamwork was undermined by the lack of anyone in firm control of the campaign. Atwater had nominal top authority as campaign manager, but Bush insisted that all decisions be made by consensus. The result was the kind of paralyzing chaos that allowed the Dan Quayle nomination to bring the campaign to the brink...