Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because he so consistently favored straight talk over polemics and specific details over abstractions, White has been dismissed in some quarters as a miniaturist a little too long on charm and short on substance. It is true that big ideas seldom engaged him unless they could be broken down into parts that made clear and common sense. His response to the hue and cry for loyalty oaths during the Communist witch hunts in the early 1950s was typical. He ignored ideology and compressed the body politic into a single form: "If a man is in health, he doesn't need...
...techniques are, of course, expensive. But the increasing cost of getting rid of dangerous chemicals provides a powerful incentive for manufacturers who use them to find ways to recapture and recycle them. While Government pressure and supervision of toxic-waste sites are vital, the disposal problem will remain intractable unless industry does most of the job itself. By one estimate, 96% of all hazardous wastes never leave the property of the companies that produced them. A number of companies have made some headway in curbing a generation of the poisons. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., for example, cut its volume...
...President Jose Sarney, among others, took the appeal to the U.N. General Assembly. Declared Sarney: "Brazil will not pay its foreign debt with recession, not with unemployment, nor with hunger." Peru's President Alan Garcia Perez, whose country owes $14 billion, has threatened to pull out of the IMF unless the agency gives his country more breathing room. Mexico's President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took a similar, if less militant, stand. Even before the deadly earthquake hit last month, his country was beginning to have difficulty limiting its spending enough to meet IMF guidelines. The disaster caused...
...right-wing rebellion within his Cabinet. Diplomats, businessmen and journalists reject that theory, however, noting that the high-level officials who previewed the speech stressed that it had already been approved by a special Cabinet committee. One top official told TIME that the reforms would become "government policy" unless Botha himself revised the draft. South Africans suggest three more plausible explanations. Botha may have changed his mind at the last minute out of pique, balking at the pressure implicit in the advance publicity. Another possibility is that Botha failed to realize how important the speech had become in the eyes...
...broken by the Conservative government last March. Kinnock lashed out at his party's militants, declaring that "impossible promises do not win victories." But Scargill had the votes, and the resolution to reimburse the miners' union passed by a 55% majority. Kinnock left the delegates with a warning that unless they mend the fissures in the party, Labor's chance for an election victory will be slim. His point was made clear by a poll last week that showed the party trailing the Liberal-Social Democratic Alliance in popularity 33% to 35%. The troubled Conservative government scored only...