Word: idea
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...their jobs due to economic conditions within a year of closing, Calton will cover mortgage payments up to $1,500 a month for six months or until the owner returns to work. Says newlywed Wendy Goldberg, a computer instructor who will soon close on a $150,000 home: "The idea of taking all our funds and running them dry to buy a house was very scary. At least this way we'll have a place to live if something happens to our jobs...
While deficit cutting is good long-term policy, the immediate effect is likely to be more pain. "We are raising taxes in the teeth of a recession," Ratajczak noted. "I am not sure that many people would call that a useful idea." Added Fosler: "The budget agreement was very much like spraying shrapnel. It was sort of an AK-47, as opposed to a target rifle, in terms of its impact on the economy. Lots of sectors are going to be paying higher fees and costs for public services...
Moreover, the idea that affirmative action is just a temporary remedy is a fraud. With every new civil rights act, like the one just attempted and soon to be reintroduced in the 102nd Congress, ethnic quotas and race consciousness become more deeply woven into American life. The current uproar over race- based college scholarships reminds us just how divisive the issue...
...occurring at a time when politically things are not the best. All kinds of demons are appearing -- nationalism, anti-Semitism and populism. I understand this is a time of transition. But lifting the lid from a pot where a new dish is being cooked may not be a good idea...
...idea of bestness, however, like a list itself, is an illusion. There is no "best." Bestness is a way of making something subjective appear objective. And best lists are a collection of the biases, or at least the interests, of those who make them. These lists incite a certain introspection too. For example, some of the Values That Made a Resurgence This Year...