Word: central
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also last week, a 101-car Illinois Central Gulf train jumped the tracks in Cades, Tenn. Among the derailed cars was one filled with caustic sodium hydroxide. Two days later 33 cars of a 91-car train, including one flatcar with a truck trailer containing 200 cases of flammable insecticide, derailed near Bowling Green, Ky. In neither accident were there any deaths or injuries...
Noted the late George Lichtheim, an internationally respected historian of socialism: "The kind of central planning that vests all control in a political bureaucracy is unlikely to be efficient, and it is certain to be destructive of freedom ... If socialism were to become permanently identified with the kind of life imposed after 1945 on Eastern Europe, few sane people would want it." Quite apart from Eastern Europe, any attempt to achieve egalitarianism poses a threat to freedom. Since people are not equal in ability, the naturally gifted minority cannot be expected to voluntarily forfeit the extra rewards earned...
...order into the economy. Most argue that controls or central planning will lead to increased output, more equitable distribution of goods, and a concentration of resources in socially useful production. Explains Claude Estier, a national secretary of the French Socialist Party: "We consider it necessary to direct the economy toward the general interest rather than toward the interests of a small number of capitalists...
...economy toward bankruptcy. A lack of consumer goods has encouraged well-organized smuggling; huge quantities of Tanzanian coffee, tea, cotton and cattle clandestinely find their way to free markets in neighboring Kenya. Peasants who have to rely on the state-run distribution network spend days carting their harvests to central crop-collection centers. Once there, they often camp for weeks, sleeping atop bales of cotton or mounds of corn, waiting for cash payments to arrive from Dar es Salaam...
...hospitals will relocate their clinical systems in one central building, the AHC, which is currently under construction. The center will economize by sharing facilities. The $118-million project will be completed...