Word: suggest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some Congressmen have recently challenged the success of the AVF and the ability of the United States to respond adequately in the event of a conventional war. Nine bills now pending on the House and Senate floors suggest everything from reinstitution of registration for the draft as early as October of this year to compulsory "national service" for young people. The rationale behind most of the legislative barrage is symbolically simple-minded--we don't have enough men (and women) to fight in the event of war. Says Sen. John D. Stennis (D-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services...
...Commerce Department's preliminary figures for corporate profits in the final three months of 1978 seemed to suggest that pretax earnings had risen at an annual rate of more than 26%. Other calculations put the rise even higher. The reports of these large gains coincided with news that the Consumer Price Index in February had jumped at an annual rate of 15.4%, the worst rise in 4½ years. The result: an avalanche of criticism that business must be doing something nefarious to make so much and that the White House was failing to enforce price guidelines...
Other studies, out last week, suggest that those gains are exaggerated. An N.A.M. analysis of the Commerce figures concluded that after-tax earnings, adjusted for the effect of inflation on depreciation and inventories, rose only 10.9% from the fourth quarter of '78. Meanwhile, New York City's Citibank separately calculated that real earnings from operations over the whole year rose only 2½%. Said the bank's Monthly Economic Letter: "Despite glowing earnings reports, many U.S. corporations are scrambling desperately to hold even against the inroads of inflation...
...concept of the double bind, which holds that schizophrenia arises from a prolonged dose of conflicting instructions, as, say, when a mother tells a child not to eat sweets, yet is constantly rewarding it with candy. But studies of identical twins and adopted children by Biochemist Seymour Kety strongly suggest a genetic base for schizophrenia. According to Kety, the flaw, contained in the cells' DNA, the master genetic molecules, may possibly be transmitted by viruses. In any case, the new pharmacological researchers no longer regard schizophrenia as a single ailment but, like cancer, as a collection of different malfunctions...
...wants to rape the earth of its natural resources, create mass famine, force illegal migration, then I would suggest that parents have as many children as they want...