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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population. Even so, Commoner is optimistic that a technological society can change its ways if its citizens have the facts necessary to make hard decisions. Besides, he says, there really is no choice. Only by respecting nature's laws can man achieve "what no living organism, alone, can accomplish-survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Price of Progress | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...Prize. Its disclosures led directly to the indictment of 21 persons, the conviction of seven and the resignation of 30 public officials. Its articles have influenced the enactment of at least 20 state and local laws. Most impressive of all, perhaps, is the fact that Newsday has managed to accomplish all this without incurring a single libel suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Return of Muckraking | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...first step he should introduce a 1 to 1 admissions policy. He could accomplish this reform even within the framework of "non-merger." Bok has said that some of the additional tuition provided by the increased numbers of women would be ploughed back into scholarships. If that money proved insufficient, the admissions offices should be merged and scholarships should be provided without regard to sex. That can be decided later. What is needed now is a clear commitment to a 1 to 1 ratio. The University must adopt an admissions policy that cuts the number of men as the only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EQUAL ADMISSIONS | 10/21/1971 | See Source »

...Until last week, Connally had indicated that the U.S. intended to turn its chronic balance of payments deficit into a surplus-and was prepared to use its economic weapons, notably the 10% surtax on imports, for as long as it took to accomplish the goal. But at the IMF meeting, Connally dropped the requirement that the U.S. must be in the black before it would scrap the surtax. Instead, he said at a press conference, what was needed was "assurances that a formula and procedure is agreed on that will rectify" the U.S. imbalance. The U.S. will chuck the surcharge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Money: A Move Toward Disarmament | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...objectives, slowing inflation will be the more difficult to accomplish. The President has rightly ruled out the extreme alternatives: lifting all restraints when the freeze ends, or imposing comprehensive controls that would require an OPA-style army of bureaucrats to enforce. That leaves a totally unprecedented job: putting partial controls on a still wobbly economy at a very late stage of an exceedingly stubborn inflation. In addition, Nixon and many of his advisers, especially Budget Boss George Shultz and Economic Aide Herbert Stein, have in the past shown an ideological horror at any interference with free markets. Casting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: What to Do in Phase II | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

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