Word: channeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southeast Asia develops constructively, we could be useful as a convenient source of expertise and a channel through which these countries can get foreign exchange. But if it goes the other way, chaotic and nihilist, then I hope that we shall have enough wisdom and skill to isolate the forces of destruction. As the Dark Ages descended on Europe, places like Venice maintained relatively civilized standards of life. I would hope that such light from Singapore would eventually help to brighten up the area again...
Even before the Burger decision, the FCC early this year denied a license renewal for Boston's Channel 5 on the ground that the station's ownership by the Boston Herald Traveler created a news monopoly. In San Francisco, KRON-TV has run into license-renewal delays because the FCC is investigating whether its ownership by the San Fran cisco Chronicle constitutes undue concentration of media control. Because of interlocking ownership of professional sports teams by its parent company, and in turn, its owners, WCCO-TV in Minneapolis is charged by its rival station with having a monopoly...
International Clientele. At nearby Nelson Point, the mining group dredged a deep-water channel, which can now accommodate 68,000-ton ships and is being enlarged to handle two 100,000-ton vessels at a time. The 3,500 workers who built the town, the mine, the railroad and 220-acre shipping facilities earned wages that were high by Australian standards because of the hardships and isolation-$80 a week for a shoveler, $100 for more skilled workers. Today the company employs...
While the new report downgrades the damage done to date, it does not say that the channel will escape unscathed...
Thus, a key element in the Marxist vision was his effort to channel the anarchistic spirit so that it would be in favor of industrialism but opposed to the capitalists. His intellectual support of the new order fused with his passionate sense of justice to shape a way of being that was simultaneously on the side of progress and in revolt against its present villains who controlled both government and the means of production. This ambivalent way of dealing with the stress of rapid social change retains its appeal for many men today...