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Before then, Bush will have four years to entrench himself, and the significant difference between the new President and his predecessor was actually highlighted months ago. In his Inaugural, Reagan reiterated the basic tenet of his political philosophy: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." In accepting the presidential nomination last August, Bush stated his view, sublimated for eight years, in five words: "I do not hate government...
...nuances of language, as if some moral or cultural dyslexia were knotting up the thought (which may explain why he keeps using oafishly wrong expressions like "read my lips" and "kick a little ass"). He seems to regard words as dangerous, potentially treacherous. Odd: it is a tenet of conservative intellectuals that "ideas have consequences." Bush sometimes sounds as if he regards ideas, and words, as an inconvenience and an irritation -- perverse, buzzing little demons that need to be brushed away periodically like flies...
...undermine their ability to help themselves? Conservative scholars like Charles Murray contend that Aid to Families with Dependent Children provided an economic incentive for women to have babies out of wedlock and for men to avoid supporting their children. Murray goes too far, but his argument is now a tenet of the welfare debate. Experts no longer argue about how much money people should receive, but what work requirements should be attached to what they...
...tries to enter foreign markets quietly, a strategy called dochakuka, or "blending into the landscape." Explains Hitoshi Tonomura, co-chairman of Nomura's London-based European subsidiary: "We don't want to become an ) outpost of our Tokyo head office. We are here to become European." The most important tenet of this philosophy is that Nomura hires locally: only 300 of its 2,000 overseas employees are Japanese...
...trial and error, Dukakis also helped discover the other central tenet of the emerging new ideology: the Democrats must again become the apostles of economic growth. To do this, Dukakis had to break free of liberal orthodoxy that automatically regards business as an adversary rather than an ally...