Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psychiatrists and other experts on group psychology and mind-control techniques offered rational explanations of how humans can be conditioned to commit such irrational acts (see box). Yet the stories told by those who survived were both fearsomely fascinating and ultimately inexplicable. How could such idealistic, if naive, people set out to build an idyllic haven from modern society's many pressures and turn it into a hellish colony of death? This is how the Jonestown dream turned into a nightmare...
Within the Government, according to Malone, he had "a great gift with people. He exercised leadership over Congress. There was not another President who had such control until Woodrow Wilson...
Some states have slapped extremely high taxes on liquor and created state-run monopolies to sell it, at a stout profit. A prime example is Pennsylvania's Liquor Control Board, which has become the nation's biggest buyer of alcoholic beverages (last year's total: 11 million cases, worth $280 million wholesale). Before a bottle of liquor goes on sale at any of Pennsylvania's 750 "state stores," the board jacks up the price 48% for its own profit, then adds an 18% "emergency" tax levied decades ago to help victims of the 1936 Johnstown flood, and finally tacks...
Those arguments are difficult to refute, not because they are themselves so airtight, but because it is so easy to rip through them and skid out of control into another, equally dangerous extreme. It is, for example, too simple to go all the way over the edge, to invoke the sanctity of a free speech and press, and to deny a newspaper's right to refuse any ads at all. There are those, after all, who hold that a newspaper has no right at all to deny access to its columns--to restrict the right of free speech...
...Williams says, but there are other ways of being part owners of these activities. The Navajo tribe just recently signed a huge joint venture uranium exploration agreement with Exxon. The agreement, (the first Indian joint venture agreement) gives the tribe equity shares in the extraction of uranium, and increased control in the rate and manner of development, should the tribe decide to develop...