Word: systemize
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Capitalism didn't fail us, publishing heir Forbes and his co-author argue. We failed capitalism by getting in its way. As if we're the ones who created the sleazy subprime mortgages and exotic derivatives (graded phony AAA by real capitalists) that blew up the system. It's the standard Forbes canon: government and taxes bad; rich people good. The pair dutifully round up free-market evangelists from Smith to Hayek to Friedman to support their apologia but fail to add any real insight. Capitalism works, all right, but not like this...
...Bauhaus way of thinking, geometric abstraction was the language of modernity, and the grid was one of its most powerful instruments, a formal system that could confine Expressionist excesses. In the catalog to the MOMA show, which was organized by curators Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman, there's a color photograph of Gropius' righteously Cartesian office, with a right-angular chair resting on a grid-patterned carpet and a grid-patterned tapestry hanging on one wall...
...office. Calls for urgent, same-day appointments are often referred to civilian emergency rooms, thereby incurring astronomical fees. I see over-the-counter medicine dispensed in ridiculous quantities. These benefits are necessary, and our military employees desperately need and deserve them. But we need a more efficient, thought-out system...
TIME's attempt to divert attention from Northwest's Captain Timothy Cheney and First Officer Richard Cole doesn't fly. Perhaps the entry-level pay grade for pilots could stand improvement, but the "system" was not in charge of the flight that went astray while the pilots lost track of where they were. Two officers, nominally in charge, abandoned their responsibilities and endangered the lives of more than 100 passengers and crew members...
...Flier, the proposed legislation does not do enough to solve the underlying issues of the healthcare system and focuses too much on reducing the number of uninsured...