Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While disappointed with the contract, other miners admitted that they would vote for it as the best they could probably get. "If the younger folks want to fight it out, let them," said Frank Washburn, 61, at the end of the Vestaburg meeting. "I wonder if a turndown now would get us anything in the future...
...many analysts wonder about the sincerity of the conversion. Warns French Pundit Aron: "As long as these parties resemble an army of militants under the authority of a few, as long as they are prepared to do an about-turn either to the right or left when so ordered, no one will take even their most solemn declarations literally." Even if the Berlinguers are sincere, it is far from certain that once they are in office their views would continue to prevail over those of their colleagues, many of whom are Stalinists...
...every level, initiative is stifled, mediocrity is rewarded by raises, and there is an unknown number of living, breathing bureaucrats who get paid handsomely for doing virtually nothing. The whole enterprise is snarled in 21 volumes of ever-expanding regulations, which nobody pretends to understand, much less read. Small wonder that the Civil Service Commission, which supervises federal personnel, has itself become a thriving bureaucracy with 8,600 employees. Over the past two decades, the agency has grown five times faster than total federal employment...
...Haldeman's book is full of odd little passages like that; dramatic hyperbole, overstatement and stereotype in place of thoughtful description. Some of these excesses are funny. Others are full of poison, and they cause me to wonder about the relationship between Bob Haldeman and the writer, Joseph DiMona. Haldeman has seen my tennis serve, and he knows my character and personality; DiMona does not. Perhaps the wrong fellow picked the verbs...
...Small wonder that economists are looking for some new treatments. The most imaginative thinking on how to ease inflation without causing dangerous side effects centers on two plans known by the acronym TIP, for tax-based incomes policy. Both call for a system of federally set guideposts,* and would use federal taxes as a means of discouraging large wage settlements. The main difference between the two plans is that one would employ a stick, the other a carrot...