Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ludicrous for anyone to suggest that Skylab is an "example of technology outracing man's means of control." Rather, it is an example of what happens when unimaginative penny pinchers refuse to permit full application of existing technology. Politicians should stay out of complex design decisions. Either provide funding to do a project properly, or don't fund...
...disturbs me to read that Arthur Clarke, in his comments on our future in space [July 16], still hopes we can one day control the destinies of stars. It is exactly this kind of thinking that has brought us the headaches of nuclear power and weapons capable of destroying the world many times over. The need to control seems to translate easily into the need to destroy...
...some ways her importance resembles that of Eleanor Roosevelt, the most influential First Lady since Edith Wilson took control of the White House for more than a year during her husband Woodrow's illness. Mrs. Roosevelt acted as a traveling observer for her crippled husband as well as a partner in policymaking. She was, however, much more of an independent force than Rosalynn Carter is, publicly crusading for her own causes and making her own name. Lady Bird Johnson was also much involved in her husband's political life. "She was a partner," says Liz Carpenter. "Like...
...public sector. They have available chairs of classics at Brown University and directorships at Gulf Oil, what have you." A Southern Governor agrees: "It was probably much easier for David Rockefeller to be chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, a powerful position in which he exercised leadership and control, than to weather the strains of public office, as did his brother Nelson...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, economist: On health care, on industrial concentration, on foreign policy, arms control and refugee matters, I don't think anyone strikes as many sparks and brings along as many people as Edward Kennedy...