Word: vocalisms
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...through 1987 in order to decrease the deficit. Although the long range plan has been met with some support on Capitol Hill, it is nevertheless losing backers within the Administration itself, who steadfastly oppose any tax hikes. Feldstein's mistake seems to be that he has been vocal in his support of the plan, something which the administration does not savor. Disagreement has centered, then, not on policy but on politics; the Chairman's propensity to harp publicly on the importance of decreasing the deficit has caused disaffection in Washington among officials who him that the Economics department professor...
...even old ones in new ways. Instead, his speech must be seen in a political context--perhaps a testing of the waters alter Grenada and before the Presidential season (or even a possible invasion of Nicaragua). In that case, political opposition would have done well to be as vocal and militant as possible...
...Dutch men, women and children stayed home. Americans should know that most West Europeans expressed themselves on the issue of missile deployment when they elected conservative governments that support NATO and the proposed defense of Western Europe. The majority of people in these countries will not bow to a vocal, skillfully misled minority...
...these practical considerations don't address the central problem. The Constitution guarantees the right to assemble peaceably and demonstrate against the government; but this should have been limited to either the silent protest described above, or the vocal demonstration held outside Sanders earlier in the day. A certain amount of vocal audience reaction is unavoidable and indeed desirable. Students should not sit meekly and just listen, in fact, everyone has the right to express approval or disapproval of a speaker's points, through clapping, hissing, booing, and so forth. And the 40-minute question and answer period allowed ample opportunity...
...highly vocal crowd of 150 denounced the U.S. invasion of Grenada last night at a discussion panel at the Institute of Politics forum held at the Kennedy School of Government...