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Power Base. Etzioni's main theoretical effort and "life's work" is The Active Society, a long and turgid treatise on how to use the levers of social change. In it, Etzioni explains how social progress requires consensus and a power base to protect and promote change. Thus he considered Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty a doomed effort from the start because it gave the poor authority without a power base. He also opposes school busing as a means of integration because no consensus for it exists. "If you want it, fine-go out and convince...
...whirlwind time, the House Democrats formed a rough consensus on a tax cut and began work on a bill. A procession of both liberal and conservative economists generally gave the Ways and Means Committee the same advice: cut taxes more than the $ 16 billion proposed by Ford and do it faster for maximum effect. Ford's proposed two-part rebate scheme-one payment to be made in May, a second in September-would be too little, too late to hasten an economic upswing. Even Arthur Burns, the cautious, independent chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said that he would...
...easier to see. Cambridge Trust President Gardner Bradlee holds that the whole political base is simply too fragmented to get anything done. "There are 25 different points of view on each issue, and they all want to be represented," he says. "It's very difficult to get a consensus and there is no one today capable of forming a coalition...
Stewart said last week that the CHUL may see the resolution reappear next year for discussion, but the overwhelming consensus against the proposal virtually insures that the matter will lay low, at least for several months...
...chosen by a consensus of the sports writers...