Word: untidyness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The central figures in that untidy scenario were Washington's two prideful old Irishmen, Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, and their failure to agree abruptly ended efforts to find a bipartisan alternative to the President's deficit-laden budget for fiscal 1983. The collapse...
A country is wealthy when it can devote substantial resource to developing gewgaws for its citizens' idle amusement, when it can create needs rather than merely satisfy them. We enjoy the affluence for much the same reason as we welcome the inventive. Both phenomena mirror our self-image as we...
In less than three years, Iran's tumultuous revolution has spawned a staggering array of problems: civil violence, war with Iraq, economic ruin, international isolation. Yet, however untidy their methods, the country's ruling clergymen seemed united in their dedication to establish an Islamic republic. Now, apparently, that...
In making the change, the synod was facing up to statistics and popular pressure. Great Britain now has the highest divorce rate in Western Europe: two for every five marriages (a 1979 total of 163,000 in England and Wales). Even the church hierarchy has been affected. Last month Suffragan...
The big horse is Pleasant Colony, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. The big race is Saturday's Belmont Stakes, final jewel in the Triple Crown of American Thoroughbred racing. Pleasant Colony occupies a stall midway down the shed row, his needs tenderly ministered to by a...