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Governments have been turning to private industry for help with welfare programs as far back as the 1960s, when Ross Perot founded Electronic Data Systems Corp. Much of its early business was crunching financial data for agencies like the Social Security Administration. But with welfare reform, more work is opening up for private companies than ever before, setting off a welfare-management gold rush. "It's a huge revenue target for the private sector to go after," says Bernard Picchi, an analyst of growth stocks for Lehman Brothers, who estimates the potential market at more than $20 billion a year...
Mann shows us both the long-term effect of these forces upon the movies--the infamous Hays morality code, which constrained the movies to representing a rigidly defined value system whose iron grip did not begin to loosen until the 1960s and '70s--and the very personal impact upon the actors in Hollywood. The studios declared that being gay was no longer okay in Hollywood, thereby avoiding the harsh criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and other religious groups, and providing spin control on the gossip newspapers that were rapidly taking on an alarming independence. Actors who were rumored...
Oscar Wilde would have been pleased. British writer Joe Orton's satirical play What the Butler Saw continues the irreverent tradition set by that great literary master in ridiculing the social standards and judgmental morals imposed by society. This 1960s play also pays homage to the time in which it was written, concentrating on the hilarities of sex, death, religion and the police force. When Orton wrote this play, he was a quickly rising star in the British literary scene; by the time of his death, he was working on such prestigious projects as screenplays for "The Beatles". His plays...
...order to see some ofthe downstage scruffling, it is more a testamentto the engrossing action than to the use of thestage. The onstage room itself is tastefullydecorated with paintings of naked women by thelikes of Rubens or Gauguin, as would be expectedof any respectable Freudian psychiatrist's officeof the 1960s...
What are the odds the U.S. government will try to shut down one of the few businesses making money on the Net? Pretty high. Last week a U.S. Attorney in New York launched the first federal prosecution of online sports betting, a $600 million operation that may violate a 1960s law making it illegal to place wagers over interstate phone lines. Though the six companies charged with conspiracy are based in the Caribbean or Central America, most of the bets are placed...