Word: undo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation or recession-or both. Says Greenspan: "If inflation is public enemy No. 1, we would be well served by a do-nothing Congress." Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University in St. Louis urges repeal of many Inflationary federal regulations. "My advice is: 'Don't just stand there, undo something.' " But Heller figures that all the Government can do to head off stagflation is "pray and inveigh...
...alienated parties will head for the convention halls, and in one last desperate attempt to persuade turned-off electorate not to turn away from the parties, from voting, from giving politicians a chance to correct the mistakes of other politicians who were elected in the first place to undo the modifications of the reforms of the earlier politicians, the parties will turn to revered senior statesmen, men with images, with romantic support, with possibility--and nominate Nelson Rockefeller and Hubert Humphrey...
...until only about 15 years ago the United States practiced its own form of apartheid. The experience of dismantling our home-grown version (a task as yet incomplete) obliges us to act on the appeals of those black and white people in South Africa who are struggling to undo the injustices with which they live every day. What Harvard and all colleges and universities in this country can do to help is to divest from those corporations which operate in South Africa. Richard Valelly '80 Third-year graduate student in Government
Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
...once prizes majority rule and individual freedom; an independent judiciary remains the best insurance that the former does not steamroll the latter. In the end, that means relying on judges themselves to exercise self-restraint. Few would ask the judges to undo all the rights they have advanced in the past 25 years. Yet, having done so much to change society, the judiciary might now pay more heed to the dictum of Justice Louis Brandeis. "The most important thing we do," he said "is not doing...