Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems can only be solved if citizens rein in the power of large corporations. It offers a mix of standard liberal stands, such as support of the Equal Rights Amendment and solar energy, and positions the Democratic Party doesn't quite have the nerve to debate, such as public control of the energy industries and experiments in worker or community ownership of factories...
Edward Miller, a Boston police detective who worked for the vice control unit at the time of the Puopolo stabbing, testified that men who frequent the Combat Zone often assist prostitutes in robbing male pedestrians. Thomas J. Mundy Jr., Suffolk County assistant district attorney, has said the three defendants were providing such assistance when they fought with the Harvard students and thus acted with forethought...
Unchanging candidates tend to veil some changes in liberal politics. David Sullivan's overwhelming vote is a sign that the issue (rent control) and the candidate (well-financed and an energetic campaigner) may be as important as the backing of the traditional liberal-power-broker...
...years as President. The candidates and the press have a responsibility to rescue this campaign from the muck and to present voters with a clear choice. Contrary to popular misconception, Carter and Kennedy differ on a number of critical issues--inflation, energy, health care, defense spending and political control of corporate power, for example. These differences and others should be systematically explored in the coming months...
...that the oil companies would try to take advantage of the energy crisis, and that he would do all in his power to stop them. At that time, he proposed a crude oil equalization tax, which would have taxed all profits oil companies gained from a loosening of price controls. When the measure failed to pass, he switched to the Republican solution--oil price decontrol. He did not, as he should have, make his decision to decontrol oil prices conditional on a strong windfall profits tax. Nor did he push for legislation requiring the oil giants to invest the billions...