Word: evenhandedness
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Last week President Bush came forward with a long-awaited bailout plan in which he sought to spread around the unhappiness in an evenhanded way. Said Bush: "Nothing is without pain when you come to solve a problem of this magnitude." His program will require taxpayers and S & Ls to...
Many blacks are apparently convinced that it is. When the New York Times and WCBS-TV News conducted a poll on attitudes toward the justice system last January, only 28% of the blacks questioned felt that the courts are evenhanded toward white and black defendants. Such sentiments may reflect, in...
By moving on Ligachev, Gorbachev seemed to be strengthening his credentials as the evenhanded middleman in the argument over reform. Six months ago, he deposed the foremost proponent of a faster pace, Boris Yeltsin, one of his closest allies. After Yeltsin complained loudly at a meeting of the Central Committee...
But wait! Historically -- one learns just in the nick of time -- balance is what nearly every account of this yearly meeting has begged. It is not all weirdness going down. It is, in the words of Dale Brown, a ventriloquist from Waukesha, Wis., "a family affair aimed at educating young...
American charity will never be an orderly or evenhanded process. Even so, millions still depend on private largesse, not just at home but abroad. Last year Americans sent more than $2 billion in private donations to the peoples of foreign countries. The Rockefeller Foundation alone will spend up to $300...