Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most intensely popular public figure in America today. It is as if he is certain to be President-or be another Kennedy tragedy. "I hope he runs," breathed one admirer, "but, oh, I hope he doesn't." None of us-including the Senator himself -seems to have control over this desire for another Kennedy. We want to feel good again...
...they are breaking a moral law, it is their business and no one else's ... It has become ... a way of life. We must therefore cope with it as such." Baldrige hardheadedly notes that a single woman living with a man should find a good gynecologist to supply birth control devices and "a good lawyer to protect her rights...
...threatened by the couple's yearly transgressions. Slade is a classic practitioner of the have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too school of Broadway dramaturgy. He seems to be saying that a carefully circumscribed adultery will actually improve a marriage, but who in real life can control their passions as well as Doris and George? Same Time, Next Year is full of such hypocrisy; Slade's only real aim is to pander to his audience's most bankrupt fantasies...
...benefits are not worth the price. They have found an ally in Jimmy Carter, who promises to battle regulatory excess as part of his Stage II anti-inflation plan. And not a moment too soon. "Our regulatory system," asserts Assistant Commerce Secretary Jerry Jasinowski, "is out of control...
...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 Commission...