Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent expedition under the heading of "History and the History of Ideas," the leader noted "the difficulties of making national citizens out of family men" because their loyalties are so parochial. This somehow led to the aphorism that a sense of mission creates a nation rather than the other way around, and finally, after a few more turns around the table, to the paradox that in the Third World, the left is the staunchest defender of the sanctity of property...
...harassment of two Moscow correspondents for U.S. magazines, Robin Knight of U.S. News & World Report and Peter Hann of Business Week. Said a White House aide: "I can just picture some dumb flunky doing something counter to the main thrust of Soviet policy. If we can screw up that way, why can't they...
...Kennedy's zeal for an activist Big Government, which has long been his mark, has gradually become more selective. His stiff antitrust legislation, his endless hearings against increasing conglomerate mergers, have put him on the side of opening the way for smaller companies to compete against the biggest corporations...
...national health insurance, for years his principal issue, Kennedy has dramatically revamped his tactics. His initial proposal called for expenditures of $130 billion; the new cost figure is all the way down to $29 billion and now heavily engages the private sector instead of passing the funds through Social Security...
Thus Kennedy views himself as standing for Big Government-where health and safety are involved, for example-but also for a freer marketplace. Some of his Republican counterparts view Kennedy in much the same mixed way. Says Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, a conservative who often needles Kennedy about his forays to the right: "Ted has no experience or confidence in local government. He still thinks all the competency is in Washington." G.O.P. Congressman Barber Conable also casts Kennedy as a centrist, a Big Government man but one who has stayed well within the mainstream of his own party. "Kennedy...