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Word: circumventions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The culmination of Hirsch's arguments is an overall critique of Adam Smith's fervent belief that his hidden hand and enlightened self-interest could be an effective social organizing device. The principle thing people desire--status--is intrinsically scarce. The only way to circumvent these limitations is to overhaul...

Author: By J. WYATT Emerich, | Title: Progress on Tiptoe | 10/22/1977 | See Source »

But despite that stalemate on specifics, Sadat was full of optimism and ebullience, and he proposed a series of alternatives. The only one that was made public was a plan known as "working group. According to this scheme, the foreign Ministers of Egypt, Syria and Jordan would go to New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: NUTCRACKER SUITE | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

One answer is that abortion is morally wrong-even, some say, a blithely conducted form of infanticide. There are painfully compelling reasons to oppose abortion; philosophers and theologians have done so for many centuries. The Hippocratic Oath includes a stricture against aiding an abortion. (Many medical schools now use a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Of Abortion and the Unfairness of Life | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

The University must be condemned for its unfeeling and--in Gallagher's case, possibly vindictive--treatment of its workers. It is unfortunate that in offering these workers undesirable jobs, and in trying to circumvent a statute that would support the employees the University has seen fit to hide behind legal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Workers' Struggle | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

The gizmos have been widely criticized by lawmen as "licenses to speed." Says Mississippi Public Safety Commissioner James Finch: "My feeling about any device used to circumvent or break our speed laws is that it should be made illegal." Though several states have outlawed Fuzzbusters, the bans have been struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Foiling the Fuzz | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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