Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most appropriately at the way campaigns are covered by the national press corps itself. Here again the jury metaphor is apt. In an ideal world juries will always be unbiased vehicles through which the facts of the case will be transformed into an appropriate ruling. But it's a truism that this is often not the case, and the men and women who have been covering Mssrs. Mondale and Reagan are very much like a jury, with elements of judge and prosecutor thrown in as well...
...become a truism of industrial relations that nobody wins a strike. But in this case the union could lose by winning. If it succeeds in protecting jobs by keeping production from going overseas, prices for U.S. models will probably rise at a greater rate, thus making American-built cars less competitive with imports. And if the union wins increases in wages and benefits, that will raise the costs of U.S. automakers and make it harder for them to stand up to the Japanese...
...cultural truism that by the time a major idea is expressed, it has long been thought but unexpressed. Many years before 1941 the 20th century could have been aptly labeled American. This would not necessarily have had to do with American predominance or even with American significance, since before its entry into the first World War, the nation had been largely preoccupied with its own development. Still, the fundamental idea that America represented corresponded to the values of the times. America was not merely free; it was freed, unshackled. The image was that of something previously held in check...
Bowie had taken his name, he once told the Novelist William S. Burroughs, because "I wanted a truism about cutting through lies." Not even Jim Bowie's renowned blade could have cut through the craziness that was surrounding Bowie now or even the tales that had been building up around him. As early as 1969, according to Tony Visconti, who lived outside London with David and Angie, life was like a lysergic version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. "Thursday night was gay night. David would go to a gay club, Angie to a lesbian club, and they would both bring home...
...death blow to the emergency the MX is supposed to solve--Reagan's off quoted window of vulnerability." They did this primarily by broadening consideration of our strategic forces to include submarines as well as bombers and cruise missiles for many this redefinition may appear to be a truism; how could anyone overlook these highly effective and deferent weapons system. But the fact remains that Reagan at least in his rehtoric has done just that. By calling the US force "vulnerable" and "inferior". he has tried to create an erroneous impression that we could be completely knocked...