Word: wording
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five respected U.S. Senators get mixed up with such an operator? In a word, money. They are obsessed by it at the rate of about $10,000 a day -- the amount it takes to fuel a Senate campaign every six years. Glenn, who was carrying a $2 million debt from his 1984 presidential bid, solicited $200,000 from Keating for a political committee he controlled. Cranston ! solicited $850,000 from Keating in 1987 and 1988 for voter-registration drives. In Cranston's tight 1986 Senate race against former Republican Congressman Ed Zschau, Keating gave the California Democratic Party...
True? The answer to that is another question: Do you believe in free-market capitalism? Do you think the best recipe for prosperity is minimum Government interference in the economy? Devotees of the capital-gains break usually claim to be enthusiastic free-marketeers. Let us take them at their word. Does the capital-gains break make sense from a free-market point of view...
Raising this skepticism is probably, to use Bush's favorite word, prudent. After all, what if Gorbachev is indeed merely pursuing by more subtle means the old Soviet goals of getting the U.S. to withdraw from Europe, dissolving NATO and neutralizing Germany? Even so, as Baker points out, it would still make sense for the U.S. to "lock in" gains by helping Soviet bloc nations become more independent and by securing agreements that make mutually beneficial arms reductions. In addition, the changes in Eastern Europe have progressed so far that a sudden reversal becomes less likely every...
...word is out, according to the September 21 issue of The Boston Globe, that--in the by-now archetypal and wrong-minded battle between Freud's famous lieben and arbeiten (love and work)--arbeiten has finally scored a decisive victory...
...probably a safe bet that when you hear the name MIT, it's almost never mentioned in the same breath with the word "athletics." But, surprise, MIT has the largest athletic program in the country--consisting of 37 men's and women's varsity sports, and an incredible array of over 23 club and intramural sports ranging from archery to yoga...