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Galbraith's final chapter, "Historical Process and the Rich," is simply an updated rehash of his landmark book. The New Industrial State, in which he argues that the free market exists only in the minds of capitalist ideologues and that the economy, free of governments intervention, is controlled by large organizations-big business and trade unions. Since corporations plan out production and to some extent anyway, prices, he argues that government planning would only be a minor change and a great improvement over the current system. The most controversial of his proposals is the call for price and income policies...
...mainly as a quiet and hard-working supervisor in a company that cleans oil pipelines with steam. Sheriff Raymond Weatherby recalls that Kahl was "polite and nice until you got him talking about taxes. Then he was off to the races." Kahl organized about ten people into a Posse chapter in Crane. He drove a Dodge pickup emblazoned with two large white stars and the words SHERIFF'S POSSE COMITATUS in black. "We heard now and then that Kahl had guns and ammunition at his house," recalls Weatherby, "but there was never any reason to check...
...LONG AS the government continues its current deregulation bonanza, the incidence of cancer could continue to rise. The more lax attitude of the EPA underscores a more general insouciance towards carcinogens in our midst. For example, Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code allowes prospering companies--like the asbestos producer Manville Corporation--to use government funds to help pay the enormous liabilities incurred by worker suits. (Asbestos, an insulator, has been shown to cause lung cancer in humans...
...beginning of yet another major effort to drive enemy forces from Iranian soil, seize Iraqi territory in return, and ultimately bring down the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Although the offensive apparently failed to score any immediate breakthrough, it was clear that another grim and bloody chapter in the 2½-year-old Persian Gulf war was in the making...
Though she says she has stopped writing to teacher her course, Bok seems to have wasted little time before planning future projects. Secrets contained a chapter on the ethics of religious confessions, and this subject has attracted Bok further. Her next book, she says, will be about "literary confessions," and will analyze literary works of autobiography and confession, looking not only at questions of openness and secrecy, but also questions of lying and truthfulness. "So in a way," she says, "my two interests will come together in the next...