Word: nubs
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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Everyone from conservative William F. Buckley to the American Civil Liberties Union argues that the emphasis must instead be shifted to what is singular about prisons, the irreplaceable nub. It is imprisonment alone that can keep predators off the streets, and that result is what the U.S. must begin chiefly seeking for its $4.5 billion a year...
Yergin, co-author of the 1979 bestseller Energy Future and contributor of two of the twelve essays in this volume, warns that a devastating energy crisis could erupt at any time. He writes: "That, in a nub, is the problem for the United States and the entire industrial world, and is why we have undertaken this study." Yer gin fears that the current small glut in perils supplies will lull industrialized countries into the type of complacency that leads U.S. auto buyers to want to rush back to big cars as soon as gas prices seem to abate...
...worse than that. Probably the world's worst. Probably I didn't deserve to live. It doesn't simply take away your self-confidence. It destroys you." Elliot Liebow, chief of the Federal Government's Center for Work and Mental Health, says that the very nub of the lost-job syndrome is the victim's feeling of being cut off from personal and social power The sense of powerlessness is compounded by all but universal self-blame, says Liebow, adding: "One very destructive thing is the enormous difficulty people have in seeing themselves as victims...