Word: scale
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...couldn't agree more with the report on environmental quality, particularly its prediction of wide-scale troubles unless conservation measures are promptly taken seriously. Looking to November, I find it hard to believe that one major political party has denounced the 55-m.p.h. limit, and the other party has been working at a snail's pace on conservation policy. Still, a snail is better than a backward elephant...
While most of the country's privately owned, small-scale businesses are efficiently run, slacking on the state job has become almost a national pastime...
...inadequate investment. The first recipient of such assistance is likely to be the factory belt stretching from Pennsylvania to Michigan that encompasses the auto, steel and rubber industries. Financing would be channeled through an existing Government agency such as the Economic Development Administration. The EDA would invest in large-scale projects and help industries to modernize their factories and improve or change their products in order to compete in world markets. Carter's economic renewal plan will probably also recommend the establishment of a national commission to be composed of representatives of Government, labor and business. This group would...
...should the suicide rate be so high among the well-to-do? Says Visotsky: "People on the lower end of the social scale expect less than these people. Whatever anger the poor experience is acted out in antisocial ways-vandalism, homicide, riots-and the sense of shared misery in the lower-income groups prevents people from feeling so isolated. With well-to-do kids, when the rattle goes in the mouth, the foot goes on the social ladder. The competition ethic takes over, making the child feel even more alone. He's more likely to take...
...heard. The film bivouacked in one town after another, opening to sympathetic reviews and closing to public indifference. Its distributor, Orion Pictures, sold the film to airlines and cable networks as a mild soporific for weary travelers and viewers. Doubtless, it was seen as nothing more than an up-scale TV movie, with its careful pacing, liberal humanism and "small" subject: the family. Now Santini has found an almost posthumous success in a Manhattan bijou. Critics helped lead the right audience to it: fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, young people who care to remember where they came from...