Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fortnight ago finally admitted it. Beneath the disappointment and embarrassment, however, lurks opportunity. Few successful programs emerge as Presidents plan them. Reagan stands at a point of departure, offered the chance to build a new scheme on some solid budget and tax gains and discard some failed notions. A vital presidency is perpetual motion...
National security and military vigilance have an unquestionably vital importance, especially today. Taxpayers should know, however, the real cost of a $1.5 trillion defense buildup. A tradeoff exists: while fares on the MBTA have tripled in the last year, the entire MBTA budget ($60 million) equals less than the cost of three F/A-18 fighter planes (1366 are planned). In the end, political support for economic conversion does not amount to a choice of butter over guns. The question is of civilians demanding the right to participate in the decision of how many guns will replace their butter. In struggling...
...brewing in the West and genuinely want to slow that down if they can." In Moscow, Historian Roy Medvedev, one of the Soviet Union's leading independent thinkers, says: "Our military budget is already at the limit of what the country can afford without cutting back on vital sectors of the civilian economy. Our leaders sincerely do not want an arms race...
...President's bold economic experiment. Their views are now endorsed by the Administration's monetarists, including Jerry Jordan, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Beryl Sprinkel, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs, who not so long ago emphasized fiscal austerity as a vital component of a successful policy...
...haunt him until his death in 1959. This posthumous volume of fers some vital clues, among them a letter to an editor: "A long time ago when I was writing for pulps I put into a story a line li ke 'He got out of the car and walked across the sun-drenched sidewalk until the shadow of the awning over the entrance fell across his face like the touch of cool water.' They took it out when they published the story. Their readers didn't appreciate this sort of thing: just held up the action...