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Bush, speaking to reporters as he returned to Washington from Colorado, said his administration would "always be vigilant against inflation [and] never relax our concern."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wholesale Prices Continue Upward Climb | 3/18/1989 | See Source »

Has the economic bane of the 1970s returned to haunt the late 1980s? For several years, inflation has seemed like a vanquished problem of another era. Price increases during the past half-decade have been remarkably small, never more than 5% annually. Vigilant economists have spotted warning signs from time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling The Heat of Inflation | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

But perhaps we are getting the first glimpses of the end of the Age of Warfare, a time when it has it has become both avoidable and unprofitable. Conservatives will scoff and claim that war is forever and we must be ever vigilant. Liberals will applaud the new era, believing...

Author: By Charles N.W. Keckler, | Title: Blasting Into a New Age | 12/10/1988 | See Source »

By contrast, Dukakis, rather than offering a rousing defense of the ACLU for its vigilant defense of free speech for the past seven years, issued a statement outlining his disagreements with the organization. His strongest countercharge was to accuse Bush of questioning his patriotism, without explaining how being a member...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: The Dreaded L-Word | 10/5/1988 | See Source »

White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater stepped up to the blue-velvet-trimmed podium of the White House briefing room for the daily ritual of feeding the usually acerbic presidential press corps. U.P.I.'s Helen Thomas, the ever vigilant observer of six Administrations, lobbed the first barbed inquiry: "Well, Marlin, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friends In High Places | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

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