Word: retardate
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...then, was responsible for Kronstadt? Avrich never attempts to solve the riddle, but it seems that the beginning of an answer is at hand. Those forces which attempted to set back Soviet Russia, to retard her economic and political progress, to make her life and her people's lives as wretched and unendurable as possible, are the real villains of the episode. To set the blame, one must look first to the Tsarists and the Allied powers who fired the opening shots of the civil war itself, who attacked what had begun as a new human experiment, a genuinely popular...
...business is changing. U.S. corporate leaders have begun articulating a new philosophy: that business is part of the total society and has an obligation to attack a broad range of social problems, if need be in ways that temporarily retard profits. Fletcher L. Byrom, chairman of Pittsburgh's Koppers Co., finds the idea that business exists only to make a profit as unsatisfactory as "saying that the function of living is to breathe." Charles F. Luce, chairman of metropolitan New York's Consolidated Edison, argues that managers must directly concern themselves with "whether Negroes and Puerto Ricans have decent jobs...
...rather risky payoff." If many more Negro-owned businesses are formed, warned Brimmer, they "would certainly be more prone to failure than already established firms, and their failures would leave a lasting burden on the individuals starting these firms. Moreover, he argued, "the pursuit of black capitalism may retard the Negro's economic advancement" by distracting attention from programs that would really help blacks and discouraging Negroes from "full participation in the national economy." What Negroes need, Brimmer counseled, is more jobs as salaried managers or as craftsmen for major companies, where they would have the capital resources...