Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While all the Democratic presidential candidates have made the need for an improved economy and reducing the budget deficit key points in their campaign, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis is taking an alternative tack...
...even as the summiteers began meeting, a strange alliance of economists grumbled that the policymakers were taking exactly the wrong tack. That might have been expected from supply-siders, who are opposed to just about any tax increase at any time in the belief that it depresses economic activity. What was surprising was that they were joined by some orthodox Keynesian economists, who ordinarily are at ideological swords' points with the supply- side school...
...Reagan's reputation for leadership was one of the great canards of contemporary politics. True leadership requires educating people about unpleasant truths and leading them towards the difficult policies reality necessitates. From the first, Reagan took the opposite tack, making it sound as if all our woes as a nation could be cured with nary a discomforting turn. He said taxes would only be increased over his dead body. Well, the president is beginning to look a bit pallid about the cheeks. Walter Mondale, someone owes you an apology...
There is a difference in this debate. While past attack on the government have emphasized the threats to ideals of academic freedom, the newest University tack is to argue that limits on institutions of higher learning will harm everyone in the nation in very tangible and material ways...
...turned all their persuasive powers on Publisher Nelson Doubleday and GE Chairman John Welch, offering them hefty prices and even giving the GE boss a lecture on corporate strategy. (Says Wossner: "We told him that music was too far away from electric motors and rockets.") Then Wossner tried another tack. In separate meetings one day last September, he recalls, he gave each American executive the impression that the West Germans could afford to buy only one of the two companies. "Either you sell to us, or we'll go to the others," warned Wossner. By the end of that...