Word: unproven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Association, which labeled it "inconclusive and premature," and from the American Meat Institute, which said it was based on "insufficient evidence." Grobstein acknowledged that his panel was "exploring a relationship between two still largely unknowns," but he added: "I don't think we're disseminating unproven theories...
...unprecedented scale and destroy vast areas of the desert. But more disturbingly, the need for a mobile missile is based on an unsound premise. That the Soviet Union can destroy all our Minuteman silos in a first strike is a highly suspect assumption, based on as-yet unproven theories of missile trajectory and accuracy. (Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union has ever test-fired a missile on a North-South route, similar to that which both countries' bombs would have to follow.) If enough Minutemen can survive a first strike--as is most probably the case--the argument...
...breadwinner trying to make ends meet, you lose. The President has created a perverse form of Robin Hoodism in which the government steals from the poor and middle class to give to the rich. The plan's rationale--that it will reduce both inflation and unemployment--is based on unproven assumptions like the much-disputed Laffer curve. Thus, if it is adopted, Americans are likely to be left with a system that is both stagnant and unjust. Reagan has persistently argued that taxes were a severe burden on the middle class, but his plan offers average Americans little relief, saving...
Kirkland criticized the supply-side theory championed by Budget Director David Stockman. "We are not a nation of guinea pigs who can be expended in the interest of testing unproven economic hypotheses," he said...
...along, the President-elect had made plain that he wanted to fill his Government with individuals whose portfolios were already stamped with success. Amateurs and the unproven ambitious need not apply, though the proof of prior competence need not be in Government service. That meant, as Reagan knew, a step down for some-and too big a step for a few he wanted. But with the naming of five more Cabinet officers and two principal White House aides last week, Reagan's top offices were filled except for a handful of posts, including Secretary of Education and Special Trade...