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...would resume as soon as the shooting stopped. Even after the economy had taken off in a gigantic postwar boom, it seemed too good to last. Every time the economy turned down-in 1949, 1953, even as late as 1958-there were widespread fears that the drop was no mere recession but the start of a spiral back down into depression. In between, inflation and unemployment rates might be low (unbelievably so by today's standards) but so was the growth rate, at least by comparison with the Soviet Union. Maybe the U.S.S.R. really would "bury" us economically-a Nikita...
...mere $3.5 million, for example, an alum can "buy" a new Harvard College professorship. And for just $5 million, a graduate can establish a named fund to provide assistance to distinguished teachers...
...example, did you know that we have a Celtic Languages and Literatures Department? Not a mere "committee" like Women's Studies, but a full-fledged academic department. Well, the faculty includes only three people: the department chair, a lecturer and a visiting professor (from Dublin, of course). Also, most of the courses are not offered this year...
...Hillary Clinton's case, the problem has never been reducible to a mere matter of style. Our First Lady does not go around in a leather bustier or pick her teeth with a riding crop. If she has a problem -- and clearly she does -- it's that somehow, characterologically speaking, she doesn't add up. A vigorous advocate of the poor, she devoted much of the '80s, yuppie fashion, to dubious schemes for the accumulation of loot. A feminist, she's been faulted for doing little to advance women's careers in her husband's Administration. Motivated by the noblest...
Congressional passage, moreover, will not immediately cement an amendment into the Constitution. Three-fourths of the states also would have to ratify it; a mere 13 states could kill the amendment by voting no or declining to take it up. Many state officials are deeply suspicious that Congress would try to balance the federal budget by pushing off onto them the burden of financing needed but expensive spending programs. Congress has pledged to pass quickly a law prohibiting "unfunded mandates" -- that is, orders to the states to do this or that unaccompanied by any federal money to pay the cost...