Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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From the Toyota Tercel driver on the Santa Ana Freeway in Los Angeles to the Volkswagen Rabbit owner dodging potholes on the F.D.R. Drive on Manhattan's East Side, the American-built car has become an object of derision and jokes. All too many American drivers now consider the cars they once fawned over to be simply too big, too heavy and too expensive. As car sales continue a yearlong slump and the auto industry faces its gravest crisis ever, an increasingly anxious public is asking: Why can't Detroit build more and better small cars...
...Wouldn't the stockholders object...
Infection, of course, can occur whenever a microbe-laden foreign object is inserted into the body. Indeed, early I.U.D.s, made of a variety of materials ranging from glass, ivory, gold, or ebony to diamond-studded platinum and even silkworm gut, caused so many complications that they soon fell out of favor. But in the 1960s, with the availability of antibiotics and the development of new plastics that made insertion easier, I.U.D.s proliferated. That trend increased when unexpected side effects were discovered from the popular contraceptive pills...
...women object to this huge, and still rapidly growing, industry? Because pornography is not about sex. It is about violence. ..against women. Much pornography explicitly displays violence, and the examples are nauseating...
...respond as community members and consumers would respond to any business to which they morally object. We can boycott. Picket. Create enough noise and pressure so that anyone wishing to attend realizes the choice he or she is making is not only one of "what to do Friday night," but a moral and political choice...