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...balanced budget, something that Keynesian economists warned would turn the "Roosevelt recession" into another full-fledged depression. Roosevelt's advisers accordingly persuaded him to seek to increase consumption. The answer to the question "What can you do for your country?" became "Consume." Thrift became wasteful, shopping patriotic--laying the groundwork for the I-consume-therefore-I-am society of today...
...muster up a storm, the movie caves in to cool--the punk's lair is the underground of an amusement park replete with maniacal roller-coaster rides with all those innocent kiddy-overtones that work pretty well in horror scenes. But in a movie which fails to provide the groundwork for such a fantastical image, the kiddie rides comes off as a last-ditch attempt to revive a movie that is already D.O.A...
...matter how hard the current leadership tries to forestall political challenge, Deng's demise will throw open the question of how to fill the space he leaves behind. Officially, that question has already been answered. Since 1989, Communist Party rulers have been laying the groundwork for a stable transition to a generation of leaders grouped around President Jiang Zemin, who was anointed by Deng as the core of a new collective leadership...
...simply among the tools of the age. Wojtyla said no, we have something new, we don't have to copy. Let us humbly build a new sociology, a new anthropology, that is based on something genuinely Christian." The Pope, says his spokesman, believes he has at least laid the groundwork for this task...
...militias say the genuine concern on the part of patriots for second-amendment rights could, in many cases, turn into something more menacing. In October the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith issued a report titled Armed & Dangerous, which charged that militias were "laying the groundwork for massive resistance to the Federal Government and its law- enforcement agencies...