Word: americans
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN probably would have liked the OAD's simplicity. Words appear in large, clear, bold-face type, and even better the pronunciations are given in normal, English letters, not in the incomprehensible, upside-down, umlaut- laden code favored by Webster's and American Heritage. Franklin might be less pleased with the OAD because he doesn't appear in it. The editors mysteriously decided to include the spellings of every nation in the world and their capitals (Umtata is the capital of Transkei) but to avoid all personal names except those of the 40 Presidents of the United States. Vice...
...perhaps in the age when the John Simon-William Safire-Edwin Newman-style of linguistic Jeremiad is so fashionable in the United States, Americans can draw a little satisfaction from the Oxford dons' attentions. Of course, the Oxford Press embarked on this enterprise because there was money to be made, but the publication of the OAD does give final legitimacy to a language now even more vital and alive than the mother tongue. American English deserves celebration. Oxford, citadel of the Old World, has finally made peace with the new; the phonies probably never will...
David Gergen, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute and managing editor of Public Opinion Management, is the committee's deputy director, serving directly under Baker, sources said. Officials said the committee includes no Harvard faculty members besides Darman...
...Donald Riegle of Michigan, and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio in 1982, he will once again trundle out his Panama Canal Treaty posters, as he did this year in "targeting" Frank Church of Idaho. The young strategist defends his ploy: "That vote was a symbol of surrender, a recognition that American is not the number-one power in the world. American voters don't want to hear that. They reject that...
...Reagan and his Congressional allies must address to satisfy the loyal legions of the far right: achieving "military superiority" over the Soviet Union before attempting further arms limitations talks; balancing the budget to avoid the 25-per-cent inflation Phillips sees looming in the near future; "reversing" our Latin American policy, giving less emphasis to human rights and more to resisting communist aggression; and, finally, cutting off funds to "left-wing groups that are improperly feeding at the public trough...