Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Fantasy Under Control...
...ever tries to do me a favor by fulfilling what you stated to be one of the most common sexual fantasies of American women-the gentle rape [Feb. 18]. I wish you had at least added that a woman daydreaming of such a forced sex act is in control of her fantasy, and therefore suffers no threat of actual danger. Not so in real life, no matter how "gentle" the rapist...
...they often were, the Knesses built houses. They farmed and did some landscaping. They installed toilets and dug septic tanks. They fixed almost any machine that needed fixing. Up through the mid-1960s sales stayed consistently mediocre. Then the Federal Government began restricting the use of poisons for pest control around food. Emerson looked down from the heavens and smiled. A decade ago, the Kness Manufacturing Co. had four employees who with the owners managed a daily output of 60 traps. Now 28 workers turn out 2,500 mousetraps...
...voting against anything that might seem likely to slow it-would be political suicide. The search for a way out of the economic morass has come to focus on a balanced budget, not as a panacea but as an indispensable first step toward getting the economy back under control. Besides, nothing else has seemed to work...
Under the never invoked Credit Control Act of 1969, the President has the authority to ask the Federal Reserve Board to restrict bank lending and/or consumer borrowing in any of eleven specified ways, including flatly forbidding "any extensions of credit under any circumstances the board deems appropriate...