Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, is that of viciousness. While there is nothing wrong with violence in movies, there is a great deal amiss when a film exists for the sole purpose of showing gruesome murders. Even in show biz, it is not necessary to sink quite so low to make a buck...
...Cold Warrior in a nation that continued to be fanatically anti-communist in the early '60s. He was a liberal who argued that Green Berets were a superior and more enlightened alternative to Eisenhower's simplistically dangerous theory of massive retaliation and the bigger bang for the buck. He was a moderate who refused to push civil rights legislation through a Congress dominated by southern conservatives. He was a radical who, for the first time since Lincoln, confronted the nation with the "moral outrage" of the position of the black in society. He was a pragmatist who competed fiercely with...
...talked with both U.S. government and business officials; there's a lot of buck passing. The administration, I would guess, is nervous that the Republican Party would be able to gain politically by arguing that the federal government is hamstringing private enterprise by telling companies where they can and cannot invest. So the administration would rather the move came from the corporations. The corporations keep saying that they're not going to write foreign policy, and that the move should come from the administration. The corporations don't mean that, of course, because they'd squeal like hell...
...even some of its early promoters have had a change of heart. Architect Victor Gruen, who designed suburban Detroit's Northland and Eastland, Chicago's Randhurst and Philadelphia's Cherry Hill, as well as other successful shopping centers, is disillusioned with the ugliness and fast-buck approach of many projects. Says he: "I refuse to pay alimony for those bastard developments...
Fred Haber '79, who made the motion to table the issue, said, "If we have a lot of people screaming question at four administrators in Sanders Theatre, they'll just be able to pass the buck back and forth between one another...