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That said, there is little doubt that Hite has tapped into a deep vein of female dissatisfaction with love relationships. "These are not happy days between the genders," observes Sociologist Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University. "All the rules have been thrown out, and everybody has to invent them as they go along. That's tough." Because of their traditional role as arbiters of relationships, many women see themselves as having to bear the brunt of that burden. "This nation is filled with burned-out women," says Joyce Maynard, 33, the New Hampshire author (Domestic Affairs) and mother of three...
...knows how much it would cost to modernize the entire infrastructure of the U.S. economy. Pat Choate, co-author of the America in Ruins study, estimates that the task could take as much as $3 trillion, roughly the amount of the annual gross national product at present. Amitai Etzioni, director of the Center for Policy Research, believes that more than $400 billion should be invested over the next decade on railroads, highways and bridges. The total value of all government-sponsored construction on those projects last year was $23.4 billion...
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...experience of these tripartite groups has been mixed to date. Labor leaders find the concept appealing, although they would like such commissions to be policymaking rather than just advisory. Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, who coined the term reindustrialization and has done perhaps the most work on the subject, believes that three or four of these groups might be useful; but he is skeptical about their widespread use. Some businessmen, on the other hand, believe that tripartite committees offer the illusion of progress, but actually result in more bureaucracy and few changes...
...emphasize the Government's role in industrial policy, former White House Adviser Amitai Etzioni, a renowned sociologist, coined the word reindustrialization. That jawbreaker was given cachet by Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft and quickly became a favorite of Capitol Hill trendmakers...