Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Whether the place is Afghanistan, El Salvador, Zimbabwe or the Great Wall of China." Says World Senior Editor John Elson, "there are staff people here in New York with special background, training and knowledge on just about any subject that can come up, who can be called on to give a story extra depth and insight...
...such people are Reporter-Researchers Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and John Kohan. This week their cover subject was Poland, where the remarkable spectacle of a Communist government negotiating with its own workers was unfolding...
...experience of these tripartite groups has been mixed to date. Labor leaders find the concept appealing, although they would like such commissions to be policymaking rather than just advisory. Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, who coined the term reindustrialization and has done perhaps the most work on the subject, believes that three or four of these groups might be useful; but he is skeptical about their widespread use. Some businessmen, on the other hand, believe that tripartite committees offer the illusion of progress, but actually result in more bureaucracy and few changes...
...little of its irony and much of the social contradiction and poignancy in songs like Muswell Hillbilly and Victoria, which voiced such self-mocking nostalgia as "Long ago life was clean/ Sex was bad and obscene/ And the rich were so mean/ ... Victoria was my queen." But the subject was ultimately too vast, too tough to focus and hard to contain. A three-record concept album called Preservation, released in 1973 and 1974, showed Davies burrowing into already familiar territory with a concentration that smacked of desperation...
...topics are selected with a view to a sort of "critical mass" theory of knowledge: the notion that enough information on a particular subject has accumulated to explode into new experiments and discoveries. Says Drug Researcher Nathan Sperber, chairman of this year's meeting on medicinal chemistry: "We try to organize sessions in areas that are just about to break open. Ideally the person working on a particular project hasn't reported on his or her work elsewhere...