Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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literature. Americans have been especially obsessive about doing things by the book: democracy has always involved the ambivalence of men and women hell-bent upon being superior to their equals. In the exuberantly crass moneygrubbing of the gilded age after the Civil War, for example, Americans were springing literally out of ditches into great wealth. The trajectory that their money purchased into ostentation, if not aristocracy, gave them all kinds of anxiety attacks. And so the etiquette-book business flourished, scores of manuals pouring forth to soothe and lead the nouveau riche nervously forward to some kind of presentability. Some...
...Civility was dealt a further crippling blow by what the author Tom Wolfe calls "The 'Me' Decade." The social crusades of the '60s (the civil rights movement, the antiwar campaign, the counterculture) broke up a lot of institutional furniture but left little to replace it in the mid-'70s except intense, aggressive self-regard. People went to classes to learn what frequently turned out to be bad manners, the assertiveness training courses that held that you have to be pushy to get what you want. Manners were not the message of Robert Ringer's 1977 bestseller, Looking...
America's regulatory history dates back to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission 91 years ago, and big growth came during the New Deal, when such agencies as the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission were started. But most of the excesses that are drawing fire were born in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, when the focus turned from industry control to social reform and a large number of new bureaus were formed, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Consumer Product Safety...
...clipping of IATA'S wings was a direct if delayed result of the "open skies" policy pursued by the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, which in its drive for deregulation encouraged the start of Laker Airways' cut-rate transatlantic Skytrain service as well as the cheap-fare plans that swept the U.S. carriers. The end of administered fares will heat up competition in the briskly growing air-travel market. The IATA carriers' revenues totaled $39.1 billion in 1977, and are expected to climb another 10% this year. But without IATA to coordinate international fare agreements, many lines...
...anarcho-capitalists, anarcho-socialists, minimal statists. We're not a standard political party," Nason said. The party sponsors libertarian candidates in elections throughout the country, and serves as a mechanism for libertarians to meet other people interested in working on specific political issues, like tax reform and local civil liberties issues...