Word: causalism
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...base, a task they say would be facilitated by the end of rent control and the curtailment of downzoning. At the other extreme, non-incumbent John Brode '52 (CC '75), formerly a co-founder with Saundra Graham of the radical Grass Roots Organization, points to what he calls a "causal link between high rise buildings and crime," and argues that tax dollars from development are eaten up by the cost of providing increased city services. Brode favors abolishing the property tax altogether and replacing it with a state-imposed graduated income...
...with your unnamed reporter, I can hardly believe he claimed--as the article implies--that it applies to every homosexual. This is neither the time nor the place to discuss whether one needs to explain homosexual behavior at all. But even if, as Schwartz suggests, there should be a causal link between hormone composition and homosexuality, one might more fairly describe it as a different distribution of, or a variation in hormones rather than as a "hormonal imbalance." If the traditionally conservative members of the APA are "not saying that homosexuality is either 'normal' or 'abnormal'" any more, couldn...
...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...