Word: controls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems of development. His research office exists to support unclassified basic research in the social sciences. We accepted this grant which was used to support a variety of studies by Berkeley faculty members, as well as a number of graduate dissertations. These studies, which were conducted without any control either by me or the granting agency, included a number of projects dealing with student and other movements in various countries, both developed and underdeveloped, support for the establishment of survey data studies library housed within the Berkeley Survey Research Center, methodological investigation of comparative analysis, and others. After coming...
...from New York State and make it a city-state of its own, organized on the basis of homogeneous neighborhoods that would run their own schools, garbage collection, police and fire departments. The proposal, argued Mailer, should appeal equally to radicals and to conservatives fed up with overweening government control. "I am asking that the Left and Right blow, each separately, one-half of their minds." The campaign slogan? "No more bull...
Self-Sacrifice. Taking up more substantial issues, the conference sanctioned birth control in special hardship cases, but refused otherwise to raise the lowly status of women in the Islamic world. Moslem husbands may still divest themselves of an unwanted wife by simply repeating "I divorce thee" three times. The conference also took a surprisingly moderate stand on the Middle East. It refused to consider the demand of the El Fatah guerrillas for a jihad (holy war) against Israel - and pointedly explained that the word jihad also meant sacrificing one's self for the good of mankind...
...Products, IBM, Uniroyal, Bendix and Continental Can. Many companies succeeded very well in squeezing more out of sales. Though its revenues dropped 7% compared with last year's first quarter, McDonnell Douglas' earnings climbed 157%, partly because the company got its troubled Douglas commercial-aircraft division under control. At Union Carbide, profits jumped 28% on a sales increase of only 8%, partly because of a drive to cut costs and increase production at existing facilities. Runaway prices for wood products lifted profits more than 60% for Weyerhauser and Georgia-Pacific...
...time for man to realize that he is a chemical being. (The time has come now because things are getting out of man's conscious control--or rather, too much under his unknowing and accidental control. Automobile exhaust, Nytol, and the sheer noise of the subways are making man into what he feels like without his realizing...