Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...complaint. Why, then, do so many workers turn against management and rush to join unions which often make punitive demands on management? Using the Freudian "psychodynamic" approach, Dr. McMurry holds that today's adult "is not nearly so far removed from childhood as people think ... In an increasingly complex socio-economy, we are dealing with selfish, dependent, hedonistic, wishful-thinking, amoral and quite immature individuals, emotionally like a child of four...
...individual. In pretechnical times most people were cultivators who lived very largely (and usually poorly) on what they produced at home. Throughout the 19th Century, this type lost ground steadily. Now in advanced countries it is almost extinct. The U.S. farmer who raises cash crops with the help of complex machines is as specialized as an airplane pilot and as dependent on others. This ever-tightening cooperation is unprecedented among mammals. The nearest biological analogies are the colonial ants and termites...
...years ago, filled whole fields with food plants and thus turned more solar energy into a form he could use. This method (level two) was much more effective than level one. About 1,000 years after its start, high civilizations were flourishing, with big cities, proud kings, complex religions and devastating wars. Many such cultures rose and fell with rhythmic repetition. But except for such cycles, there was little change for nearly 6,000 years...
...three months in Washington, British, Canadian and U.S. oil experts have been conferring on a broad and complex question: How can Britain cut down on its greatest dollar drain, the $625 million a year it spends to buy and produce oil? ECA had tried to help: it had allocated $30 million for the construction of oil refineries in Britain...