Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the vote, Congressman Mo Udall, one of the bill's sponsors, had feared the gasoline shortage would give industry lobbyists a powerful argument for approval of an opposing measure that would have opened 63 million acres of Alaska's wildlife refuges to oil exploration and hard-rock mining. With long lines forming outside California gas stations, Udall warned, "This is the worst time to bring this bill...
...Starting two years ago, Carter's charges of "kickbacks" and "rip-offs of the American people" spread alarm far beyond the targeted oil companies. Says Irving Shapiro, chairman of Du Pont: "I regret that the President seems to have been taken in by the argument that the oil industry should be made a public villain. I have to speculate that [Media Adviser] Gerald Rafshoon told him there are votes in doing...
...literacy, and layering American homes with an attention-numbing narcotic. The charges go way back. They were first raised by long-suffering parents and teachers who simply watched the TV viewing of children under their care and came to what they felt were grim, self-evident conclusions. Then the argument shifted a bit to the amount of violence on TV and its cumulative effects on society. To both counts the TV networks reacted as they still do: Life is complex. There is no proof. It's a free country, and people get what they want, as the networks...
...First Amendment, as interpreted at the time, protects TV networks from responsibility unless act is intentional involved, so "incite the case was thrown out of court. And the argument goes on. Psychological and medical research teams have joined parents and educators in studying the problem, much of their work financed by organizations publicly concerned about the damage TV may be doing. Among the latter: the National Institute of Mental Health, the House Subcommittee on Communications. Even the American Medical Association, not noticeably alarmist, announced a series of research projects and dedicated itself to a long-term effort to reduce...
...earning, the killing hours and loss of contact with family." A few doctors indeed hint that they are underpaid?or observe that they earn less than corporation chiefs and top sports stars, though their value to society is at least as great. Whatever one may think of that argument, the physicians' attitude obviously does nothing to hold down medical costs...