Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sociologist Daniel Bell put it recently, "If economic growth, which has been the means of raising a large portion of the world into the middle class-and also a political solvent to meet the rising expectations of people and finance social welfare expenditures-cannot continue, then the tensions that are being generated will wrack every advanced industrial society and polarize the confrontation between the South ... and the advanced industrialized capitalist societies of the West." IMF directors would doubtless reply that that is a prophecy of apocalypse tomorrow-and they have their hands full warding off disaster...
...sultry night in Queens, thirsty for a thunderstorm that will come too late, but 250 middle-class homeowners stay dutifully in their hard little folding chairs. They are at the Bell Park Jewish Center to inspect mayoral candidates. Congressman Ed Koch leads off-witty, whimsical, wise-and he suggests that Abzug is a demagogue for promising that she would wrest more federal help for the beleaguered city. He gets polite applause...
...sources in state and federal law enforcement agencies, banks and credit bureaus. He claims he can call upon friendly congressional aides to pry out private reports on people from the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. He will pay an employee of Ma Bell as much as $250 for an unlisted phone number, but notes that the payola has inflated from $25 before passage in 1974 of the Privacy Act, designed to shield citizens from at least some invasions of privacy by the Government. Since then, Beltrante gripes, some of his phone company sources...
...this year are expected to reach $20 billion. McDonald's, the giant of the industry, will very soon sell its 23 billionth hamburger. A Texas chain called Church's Fried Chicken uses up 37 million pickled jalapenos per year. In 1976 the 700-plus units of Taco Bell consumed 1 million tons of beef-and that is a modest amount by the standards of McDonald's or Burger King...
Attorney General Griffin Bell is opposed to the section permitting a witness to bring a lawyer, arguing that this "would mean two trials instead of one," but he is on record as favoring grand jury reform in principle. So are the American Bar Association and American Law Institute. Indeed, some trial lawyers have called for the abolition of grand juries as outmoded and superfluous. That would involve repealing the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of a grand jury's consideration before indictment, however, and no one has dared to tamper with the Bill of Rights in nearly 200 years...