Word: contention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more and more business dollars flow into politics, more and more chief executive officers (CEOs)--company presidents or chairmen of the boards--from the biggest corporations are becoming personally involved in all levels of government. No longer content to leave the dirty business of lobbying to a vice president for legislative affairs, modern CEOs join associations like the Business Roundtable, which requires them to lobby personally Congress and the White House. Or they simply stalk the halls of Congress on their...
Sneath is bucking the current trend of the CEO's increasing political involvement. The large corporation is no longer content to merely send contributions to members of Congress in the hope that they will remember the generosity of corporate America when antitrust legislation and the like comes up for consideration. Big business now sends its titular heads as emmisaries to Washington. Like the ruler of a foreign nation, the CEO's charisma--derived from his control of billions and billions of dollars--gives him access to the powers-that-be in Washington. In principle, every citizen has equal political right...
With gasoline getting increasingly scarce and expensive, what are people going to do if Congress goes through with Transportation Secretary Brock Adams' proposals to slash the Amtrak passenger service [March 19]? There will be few trains to fall back on. Do you think Americans will be content to stay home...
...hold down their grain crops, so expanding production would not be too difficult. Moreover, alcohol can be produced from a variety of infinitely renewable sources. Though U.S. distillers now use mainly corn as their alcohol base, experts assert that just about any substance with a high starch or sugar content could be used, including wheat, potatoes and sugar cane...
This point leads to a third. The widely publicized so-called "reform" of the Core curriculum at Harvard was largely motivated, according to the faculty, by growing concerns about the ethical content of a Harvard College education. It's been asserted that the Harvard stamp should attach only to humans capable of thinking in value-terms and able to make responsible, value-laden decisions, which we all must do every day. A University which, in its operations in the world, fails to struggle with the practice of what it "preaches" in its classrooms, truly exposes its freedom and independence...