Word: adams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inefficiency in America" (March 23, 1970) and "Can the World Survive Economic Growth?" (Aug. 14, 1972). But none of his assignments have been as global as the subject he tackled for this week's cover story: the future of capitalism as it approaches the bicentennial of its manifesto, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations...
...supply and demand lost its grip? To find the answers, Church and Reporter-Researcher Valerie Gerry plunged into Smith's opus and the works of capitalism's later exegetes. "It was a crash course in all those people everybody quotes but nobody reads," Gerry explains. "We treated Adam Smith and our previous cover subjects, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes, as news sources." Gerry also interviewed dozens of living experts, including the members of TIME'S Board of Economists. Meanwhile, correspondents in the U.S. and Europe reported the views of both friends and foes of the system...
...outspoken champion of the free enterprise system and is leading a frontal attack on the federal bureaucracy that he believes is subverting it. At the same time he is an aggressive regulator of business. Yet Engman's self-appointed role as a sort of Ralph Nader out of Adam Smith involves no serious contradiction. He simply believes consumers are best served by a highly competitive business community, and he happens to be in a job that allows him to press that case forcefully...
...Secrets. Other elements of the Bible are similarly warped in the Gnostic scriptures. For example, the Gnostics viewed the serpent of the Garden of Eden as a hero rather than a villain, because he helped reveal the secrets of the Tree of Knowledge that Yaldabaoth had jealously kept from Adam and Eve. Yaldabaoth, working in league with Noah, tried to exterminate the knowledge-seeking Gnostics with a worldwide flood. Later on, he attacked them with brimstone when they sought refuge in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah...
Mashek found that Ford "met with an imposing variety of people," in an "air of humming activity." Hersey, who couldn't keep his eyes off the "twinkling Adam chandeliers," the "proud Hoban columns like marble guardsmen," and the violins of the U.S. Marine Band, was similarly impressed. A lot happens during his week. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Burns explains the economy to the president, bringing with him "several charts; on some of them upwardness is visible." At a cabinet meeting the president asks Earl Butz. "Are the farmers happy. Earl?" Earl replies evenly. "No sir, they aren...