Word: basic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wright Edelman, director of the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, argues that Americans should try not to posture about them but instead look hard at statistics: The U.S. has the 14th highest infant mortality rate in the world; 10 million U.S. children have no regular source of basic medical care; 600,000 teen-agers a year, most of them grotesquely unprepared for the experience, give birth to children...
These are the basic forecasts of TIME'S ten-member Board of Economists, which met for a day in Manhattan last week. Each member acknowledged that predictions are particularly chancy in these mercurial tunes, and that any seemingly logical forecast could be thrown off by a severe oil crisis or some unforeseen event...
...hardest struggle has been to police prices. In the U.S.'s trillion-dollar economy, no single formula could be fair to every company. COWPS' 45-page booklet of basic regulations is so loaded with well-intentioned but confusing caveats, qualifications and exceptions that not even lawyers seem able to understand it. Meanwhile, fresh legalese spews forth almost daily from COWPS in an effort to clarify, amplify or refine earlier regulations and procedures...
...draw attention to the sad disarray into which American liberals have fallen. Calculating that they could not win a popular battle, they are calling in law professors and raising a standard in defense of a constitution which is in no danger. It would hearten those who agree with their basic stand against a balanced-budget amendment if they dropped the scare tactics and fought the issue out where it belongs, not in legal briefs, but in the legislatures and polls...
There are two basic strategies which the student assembly could follow in trying to influence University officials. First, it may act as an outside pressure group. This alternative may be symbolically represented by a group of students on the steps of University Hall, reading a list of demands. Second, it may function as an inside pressure group. Symbolically, this approach is realized when some of the students on the steps walk inside, sit down with University administrators, and attempt to effect change through discussion and compromise...