Word: spheres
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...economic sphere, conservatives have every reason to continue to be critical of Big Government, undue intrusions into the market, protectionism, excessive regulation and apocalyptic environmentalism. They should continue to stand against ever expanding entitlements and the ideal of forced equality. But conservatives must not merely oppose. In that spirit they should also question some of their taboos (certain tax increases and government initiatives cannot be damned under any and all circumstances). As creative conservatives from Disraeli on understood, conservatism is bound to fail if it is seen as a prescription for doing nothing...
Gary Becker, 61, economics and sociology professor at the University of Chicago and Business Week columnist, pioneered the theory that people follow the same rational path whether making simple everyday decisions or complex business calculations. Honored for "extending the sphere of economic analysis to new areas of human behavior and relations," he has influenced demography and criminology with his research...
...competition that is normal and inevitable among nations will increasingly be played out in the 21st century not in aggression or war but in the economic sphere. The weapons used will be those of commerce: growth rates, investments, trade blocs, imports and exports. "The move to multinational trade blocs around the world has suppressed nationalism," says Gregory Schmidt of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, California. "Economics will eventually win out in the 21st century...
What the current hubbub over political lying ignores or drowns out is the fact that there are disabling truths, messy realities that positively stymie adequate response unless their particulars are reduced to deceptive simplicities. Every sentient human being knows this from daily experience. What has shattered in the public sphere, as epitomized by the Bush-Clinton campaign, is the once agreed-upon etiquette of lying...
...extends far beyond either of these two planets. Out there in the frigid darkness beyond any known planet, they believe, lies the Kuiper belt, a ring of dusty ice chunks that surrounds the solar system. Beyond that, astronomers say, is the similarly composed Oort cloud, which forms a vast sphere around our planetary system. The cloud stretches two light-years from the sun, halfway to Alpha Centauri, the next nearest star. Occasionally one of the icy lumps in these outer regions is nudged toward the sun by a passing star or gas cloud. As it falls toward our world...