Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commanded by the dictator's half brother, Colonel Jose Somoza, is now so preoccupied with battling the rebels that routine police work has been sacrificed and street crime is rampant. Complains the manager of a bottling company whose trucks were robbed 51 times in March alone: "The average citizen doesn't know who is going to hit him over the head or put a gun in his ribs and take the money from his pockets...
...that mine and use coal formed it with environmental leaders, and together they reached productive compromises to speed the digging and burning of coal. Similarly, Diebold's clients ponder the example of Pennsylvania Power & Light and Canada's Ontario Hydro. Before building a power plant, they solicit citizen volunteers to examine a number of sites and pick the one that seems the most desirable-and environmentally safest. Perhaps other corporations would be wise to join with real or potential critics instead of fighting them so hard...
...individuals. Individuals would be able to see, and copy, reports about their credit and their character that banks, insurance and loan companies regularly share with each other. Carter also urged new privacy safeguards on the more than 4 billion records on individuals (an average of 18 for each U.S. citizen) now held by the Federal Government, and asked Congress to restrict disclosure of the large assortment of information being stored by the new Electronic Funds Transfer systems. Such computer systems enable consumers to do everything from buying groceries to renting cars without even signing a check. But they can also...
...comes up for consideration. Big business now sends its titular heads as emmisaries to Washington. Like the ruler of a foreign nation, the CEO's charisma--derived from his control of billions and billions of dollars--gives him access to the powers-that-be in Washington. In principle, every citizen has equal political right. In practice, some are more equal than others...
...same suit. We've just gone back and done our homework," Stephen Gay, spokesman for the Red Line Alert, a citizen's group which is seeking an injunction in federal district court to halt work on the extension of the Red Line through Harvard Square, said this week...