首页> 外文期刊>The economist >America's fiscal Cassandra
【24h】

America's fiscal Cassandra

机译:美国财政卡桑德拉

获取原文
获取原文并翻译 | 示例
           

摘要

This book carries two warning signs. First, it has a plodding title: "The Education of an American Dreamer". Second, it is the memoir of a former commerce secretary. How could such a book possibly fail to be dull?rnThe answer is, if it is written by Peter Peterson. Most commerce secretaries cannot be forgotten because the public never learned their names in the first place. Mr Peterson is an anomaly. As the head of Richard Nixon's commerce department, he specialised in solid analysis and brazen showmanship. When trying to end a furious stand-off between tuna fishermen and dolphin-lovers, he posed with Flipper, a Bottlenose film star, to reassure the public that he cared. (He also pushed for safer tuna nets.) To promote a new way of making children's clothes flame-resistant, he got his daughter to go on television and hold a match to her favourite rag doll.
机译:这本书带有两个警告标志。首先,它具有一个引人入胜的标题:“美国梦者的教育”。其次,这是前商务部长的回忆录。答案是,如果是彼得·彼得森(Peter Peterson)所写,那怎么可能没话说呢?不能忘记大多数商业秘书,因为公众从来没有首先学会他们的名字。彼得森先生很反常。作为理查德·尼克松(Richard Nixon)商业部门的负责人,他专门研究实体分析和无耻的演艺。当试图结束金枪鱼渔民和海豚爱好者之间的激烈对峙时,他与宽吻电影明星弗莱珀合影,向公众保证他在乎。 (他还推动了更安全的金枪鱼网。)为了推广一种使童装具有耐火性的新方法,他让女儿上电视,并与她最喜欢的抹布娃娃进行了比赛。

著录项

  • 来源
    《The economist》 |2009年第8634期|86-86|共1页
  • 作者

  • 作者单位
  • 收录信息
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类
  • 关键词

相似文献

  • 外文文献
  • 中文文献
  • 专利
获取原文

客服邮箱:kefu@zhangqiaokeyan.com

京公网安备:11010802029741号 ICP备案号:京ICP备15016152号-6 六维联合信息科技 (北京) 有限公司©版权所有
  • 客服微信

  • 服务号