Word: slide
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Americans seem to have forgotten the difference between spending and investing. If balancing the budget is truly motivated by an interest in our children's future, then why aren't people demanding that Washington correct its 30-year slide in public investment? Families and businesses recognize that physical and human capital investments are not the same as current consumption; so should the Federal Government. America can develop a future-oriented fiscal agenda that retains budgetary discipline. But first someone must ask, What about investment? Charles J. Whalen, Resident Scholar Jerome Levy Economics Institute Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Spending money...
Brown, who is Black, says he thinks the nation's rightward slide is definitely reflected at Harvard. "You see a lot of your typical, chest-beating, angry white males, the group is smaller but just as vocal, and like the rest of the nation's, their arguments aren't too well thought out," he says...
...Muslim-led Bosnian government traded thousands of artillery shells with Bosnian Serbs in a two-day battle. The fighting was the worst in 15 months. Meanwhile, in its latest desperate effort to brake the slide toward all-out war in Bosnia, the U.S. presented Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic with an offer of relief from international sanctions if Serbia recognizes Bosnia's borders. Milosevic offered no response...
TIME: Is there any danger that Russia might slide back into authoritarianism...
...time sideman for such musicians as John Hiatt and John Mayall, the Mississippi-born, Lafayette-bred Landreth also played with Chenier in his prime. His first major-label solo album, 1992's Outward Bound, displayed a brilliant command of styles, including Chet Atkins-style flat picking, Delta blues and slide guitar. His most recent album, South of I-10 (referring to the interstate that bisects Louisiana), is even better. Creole Angel, for example, features a Zydeco-like repeated riff that builds to an overpowering climax. Landreth's variety of accents embraces the joyous cultural fusion that is Cajun country. Says...