Word: thereness
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BUT there's something suspect about SONG's grand vision. It's unlikely that a higher regard for intellectual achievement is a panacea for declining American economic competitiveness.
The USSR (and there are plenty of other examples) demonstrates that however much the pursuit of knowledge is revered, political forces play a critical role in fostering or impeding economic success.
Picture a cartoon: there is a burly man and a wide-eyed, voluptuous women in bed. The man asks, "Honey, remember the FIRST time we had SEX?" She gazes up at him and replies, "Mmmhmm..." "Why didn't you press charges?" he wonders.
THE HISTORICAL significance of the 1980s is that the Winners, in the rush to defend their privileged positions, forgot that the rest of society existed. Granted, the Winners do a lot of agonizing about the plight of the ghetto "underclass." And then there is the ever-present evidence of homelessness...
In Ec 10 last year, Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 told his Harvard audience, "There's some good news this month: Unemploment edged upwards..." without anyone blinking an eye.