As a veteran I can attest that the average matelot, like the low-ranked soldier, is a practical woman or man and is far less subject to delusions of command than his or her superiors.
Placing the stimulus plan in the hands of state governments is an extremely dangerous prospect since it will surrender federal control over those funds to local authorities who are far less subject to independent oversight and far more susceptible to political corruption.
A new study suggests that family members would be far less likely to subject their loved ones to such treatment if they had a better understanding of dementia as progressive, debilitating illness that ultimately shuts down the body after years of mental deterioration.
With greater pay transparency, employers would be forced to be more upfront about compensation decisions and would be far less likely to subject employees to discrimination, intentional or otherwise.
Gay people subjected to heightened stigma, discrimination and even persecution will be far less likely to access whatever HIV treatment, care and support might be available.
Gasoline would be far less pernicious.
Mr. Bush, in contrast, is far less comfortable with the subject matter, more dependent on a stable of advisers, many drawn from administrations of Ronald Reagan and his father.
Maxwell, whose publisher bills him as a "researcher and writer," has dug up some interesting stories, particularly from Ballmer's early days, but he has produced a clunky book that is far less interesting than its subject.
Revkin's subject is far less straightforward, including as it does centuries of Arctic exploration and partaking of politics, climate science, history, dreams.
In the 1970s, when autism was a rare diagnosis and accounts of raising a child with the disorder were far less common, Noah Greenfeld, the subject of several well-received books by his father, Josh, was "probably the most famous autistic child in America".
