Word: causal
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...Federal bureaucracy. In the process, they become foot soldiers for the Corporate State. And the game they play meets little opposition. The cigarette controversy typifies the Superlawyers' ability to juggle the controls of governmental regulation. In early 1964, when the Public Health Service issued its famed report on the causal connection between smoking and bad health, the FTC proposed rules requiring that tobacco companies warnings both on cigarette packages and in advertising. Under the direction of Abe Fortas, who represented Phillip Morris, Washington Lawyers for the big tobacco companies formed a solid coalition to help the tobacco lobby. Fortas...
...answer to the previous question. The advantages of such a method for military decision-makers especially in a crisis situation, are evident. Researchers working under the Project's auspices are developing further elaboration of computer techniques to deal with the special problems of the social scientist: complex correlation and causal chains; many variables, none of which can be held constant; and textual data to be analyzed for thematic content...
Speaking Friday after a meeting with executive director of the International Association of Police Chiefs, Quinn Tamm, Mitchell noted the First Amendment rights of free speech, and stressed that no action would be taken, "unless we can find a causal connection" between such rhetoric and a specific incident...
...This tragic toll of injury and death will continue as long as research focuses on the vehicle only and neglects the driver," he said. "Physicians have thus far paid little attention to what is undoubtedly the most significant causal factor of all-the psychological...
...cast as a symbolic action (for we never conceived of not giving it back to Harvard). It did not help to stop the war or end Harvard's oppression of the working people of this area, but in retrospect, we seem beyond really expecting that sort of causal link in our actions...