Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...odds still are that the T.U.C. and the government will succeed in hammering out some sort of agreement, if only to prevent the political calamity of an open breakdown of the social contract. The question is whether Phase 3 will be effective enough to serve as the government's main weapon against inflation. If not, the Labor government will find itself in the ironic position of having to rely increasingly on the conservative strategy of holding down inflation by restricting the money supply. Healey, in fact, has already said as much, arguing that "wages can only rise above...
...arose from mere matter. Indeed, he thinks he finally has the answer: consciousness arose from language in two evolutionary steps and appeared for the first time in human history in the second millennium B.C. Jaynes proposes this startling concept in his new book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. If his theory is correct, mankind existed without consciousness for thousands of centuries, functioning dimly in "antlike" colonies nearly up to the age of Confucius and the ancient Greek philosophers. Before consciousness, says Jaynes, mankind was directed by hallucinatory voices, which survive today in schizophrenics; these...
...assassination of a dictator and the breakdown of human relationships are the subjects of the very serious play being performed at the Ex this weekend. The first English production of the Austrian play The President, written in 1971 by Thomas Bernhard and translated by director Gizelle Faulkenberg's mother, will emphasize the traditional themes of decadence in a very modern way. Performances are tonight through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 3 p.m. Free tickets are available at the Loeb box office at noon the day before the performance...
...There must a breakdown in communications somewhere," Nicholas Mimken said yesterday. "Our branch is simply a selling branch, we have no say in where money gets invested...
Korry said Church has suppressed his testimony before the Senate committee, initiated a "whispering campaign" against him in the press, and accused him of having perjured himself and having suffered a "nervous breakdown...