Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President, of course, will not phrase his State of the Union speech in quite such baldly political terms. But when he steps before a joint session of Congress and national-TV cameras Wednesday night, Reagan is expected to sound the themes he will be repeating throughout the 1984 campaign. His official announcement of his own political plans is scheduled for Sunday night, and Reagan still refuses to confirm publicly what all his aides assume to be as sure as sunrise: he will run for reelection. In any case, the address was drafted, primarily by Reagan, as a political document...
...almost every day just in time to delay or cancel the plane from Belgrade. A radar landing system was installed recently, but pilots who have managed to reach the city say that it often does not work. Landing-strip lights wink out during the nation's power brownouts. Trains sound like a good idea, but one New York visitor learned to his bafflement that it is not possible while still outside Yugoslavia to book a first-class train seat for a journey within Yugoslavia?Zagreb to Sarajevo, for example...
Such criticisms sound awfully familar and the licensing controversy could serve as a blueprint for many others. "Free flow" is the classic liberal ideology, the legitimizer of social theory, democratic constitutions, and neoclassical economics. The most striking intellectual break with this ideology was Marx, who saw a one-way flow of surplus labor from laborers to capitalists. The old liberal ideology has faced severe strains over recent decades in America, becoming the target for dissatisfied Blacks, women, gays, radicals, and others. All of them said basically that the flow is one-way. The lines of money, education, social goods have...
...listing some 150 examples of legislative opposition to needed reforms and naming the big spenders in Congress. When the group closed up shop last week, however, the specific boondoggles had been deleted and the report no longer named names. Grace contended that so many instances of congressional meddling with sound business practices had been found that it was impossible to list them all and unfair to cite only a few examples...
...possible values of human society, one and one only is the truly sovereign, truly universal, truly sound, truly and completely acceptable goal of man in America. That goal is money, and let there be no sour grapes about it from the losers...