Word: concoction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Diotallevi, editors at a Milanese publishing house. Given his expertise, Casaubon is hired as a consultant to advise on the endless stream of Templar manuscripts that flood the editorial offices. Eventually, these three scoffers find an amusing way to waste their time. Using Belbo's new word processor, they concoct "the Plan," a plausible scenario revealing a Templar plot to unleash unimaginable powers from the center of the earth in order to rule the world...
...problem, of course, is that there is no fail-safe recipe for democracy. While Hungary and Poland have successfully evicted the old chefs from the kitchen, they are having a hard time settling on who will help concoct a different mix. After years of popular revolt, the Poles have installed a Solidarity-led government, but that new leadership is brushing up against its own lack of experience. Within the Sejm, Solidarity is having problems enforcing party discipline. Out in the provinces, the government is having an even tougher time persuading Communist officials to relinquish their privileges, let alone their posts...
...even there, restoring a two-tiered system -- with one income-tax rate for "ordinary" income and a lower one for capital gains -- would do little more than restore the incentive to concoct schemes to convert the former to the latter. We don't need more tax lawyers and tax-driven strategies to compete in the world marketplace; we need a simple tax system that doesn't distort economic decisions...
...they consider it uncommon, hence newsworthy; the irony is that the coverage prompts many readers to assume that such failings are widespread. Many a journalist has felt the temptation, as Malcolm allegedly did, either to skip the drudgery of poring over notes or, having perused them in vain, to concoct the perfect quote to make the point. Such behavior may be legal. But as every journalist knows, it is, in Malcolm's own words, "morally indefensible...
...addition, I would imagine that the courts would look at such a law as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, something you yourself have fought against. I must admit I am surprised that someone with your credentials could concoct a proposal that seems so flawed constitutionally...