Word: almost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LITTLE MURDERS takes place in an almost psychotic New York milieu of impending violence. The plot is to get the passive fiance to marry the all-American daughter of a middle-class family, but the point is social satire that brings treacherously light-hearted laughter, despite Jules Feiffer's attempt at the blackest of comedies...
Even though they disclaim any thoughts of setting up a new class of conglomerates, insurers have so much cash to invest that their new tactics can have an enormous effect on the economy. Last year, life insurance companies alone had over $17 billion of new money to invest, or almost 14% of gross private investment. To investors who have been accustomed to getting only an interest return on loans, says Washington Economist Miles Colean, "an exposure to equities is like the taste of blood to a young lion." The insurance industry's new look may have an even greater...
Nowhere have the sounds of outrage been heard more frequently than in New York City, where giant Consolidated Edison Co. has blamed conservationist opposition to its expansion plans for its difficulties in meeting growing demands for electric power (see ENVIRONMENT). Last week consumer wrath fell in almost equal measure on the New York Telephone Co., second largest in the Bell System. At a hearing called by the State Public Service Commission to investigate complaints of poor service, witnesses railed about everything from Manhattan's grossly overloaded Plaza 8 exchange to pay telephones in which the only working parts seem...
...With almost obsessive regularity, both radical right and radical left denounce the Liberal Establishment as Public Enemy No. 1. Too bad they are wasting so much time on a paper tiger, asserts Theodore Lowi, a liberal professor of political science at the University of Chicago. No such establishment exists, except on paper, and for that matter, not much is left of liberalism...
...natural attrition. They had to share power and influence because of the democratic process; some agreement had to be established with the private groups to be affected by federal policies. But beyond that, Lowi says, liberals have been the prisoners of a pluralistic theory that has become almost an article of faith in the U.S.: the belief that out of the clash of special interest groups emerges the common interest. This pluralism has been cast in various disguises. It has been called countervailing power, creative federalism, partnership and participatory democracy, though this last phrase has also been appropriated...