Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...control in a political bureaucracy is unlikely to be efficient, and it is certain to be destructive of freedom ... If socialism were to become permanently identified with the kind of life imposed after 1945 on Eastern Europe, few sane people would want it." Quite apart from Eastern Europe, any attempt to achieve egalitarianism poses a threat to freedom. Since people are not equal in ability, the naturally gifted minority cannot be expected to voluntarily forfeit the extra rewards earned by its efforts...
...government's most ambitious attempt to restructure the economy while permitting private ownership has been to give workers a voice in corporate management. A 1972 scheme for "industrial democracy" requires all firms with more than 200 employees to give worker representatives one-third of the votes in the new "corporate assemblies" that replaced the traditional shareholders' meeting. Another idea being contemplated by the Labor Party is the "Gjest Baardsen fund," named after the legendary Norwegian version of Robin Hood. Like its name sake, the scheme would take money from successful companies and give it to unprofitable ones...
Writing in the Jerusalem Post, former Foreign Minister Abba Eban attacked Begin's position as "judicially frivolous." Davar, the semiofficial voice of the opposition Labor Party, declared: "The Israeli attempt to undermine the sanctity of 242 is a perilous maneuver. It only strengthens the impression that the government is fleeing any attempt to deal with fundamental questions and prefers formalistic sophistry and settlement gimmickry...
This semidocumentary is an attempt to dramatize case histories of people who have somehow revived after having been pronounced dead. The film stresses the similarity of their experiences in the twilight zone: a sense of hovering above their beds, a trip through a prettily lighted tunnel toward a bright glow, pearly gates (or something quite like them symbolically), the whole accompanied by warm, sensual feelings. Many, of course, catch a glimpse of God along the way, and they all make The End sound infinitely preferable to a case of the Russian flu. But the film is so simplemindedly earnest...
...Mary Lyn talked, and then I talked. It was all sort of extemporaneous. This was the first really close person that ever died for a lot of these people, and they didn't know quite how to deal with it. It was just an attempt to put it all in perspective. The fact that he was a great guy, but that he lived on the edge, and like a lot of these people who I had talked to said, he realized it was something you sort of bargain for a little bit. I said that Bob realized this was always...