Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the counter-community of the dispossessed and it requires a sacrifice. There is no equivocation possible--either you are a corporate lawyer or you are a free lawyer...
...must give up the community of the nation's establishment in favor of a community of hippie-radicals, creating a new life-style in which the best aspects of the hippie movement can be fused with the best of the radical. Supak urges "We must start to build counter institutions...
Possibly the best idea comes from Switzerland. Called Rotopark, the system was designed by Roger Bajulaz, an engineer who decided that "the future calls for underground car parks capable of taking 100 to 500 cars." Above ground, there is only a check-in counter and a bank of elevators. The elevators take cars below to be stored on circular levels, each of which is really a turntable that rotates until an empty space comes to the elevator. When it arrives, the car is parked automatically...
...cities, only to be replaced by hundreds of grim, brutal KGB (secret police) agents flown in from Moscow to manage and monitor the country's life. Liberal Czechoslovak officials were soon being removed from their posts, and from Moscow Pravda demanded the "liquidation" of 40,000 "counter-revolutionaries...
...already awash in problems. The stock exchanges are battling the Government in defense of their lucrative but controversial system of fixed minimum commissions. As part of an eight-month effort to unsnarl the paperwork jam that has slowed brokers' back-office operations, the exchanges and over-the-counter market last week decided to remain on a four-day trading week throughout September. Beyond all that, the Merrill Lynch case is clearly Wall Street's newest, worst nightmare, if only because it is bound to raise doubts about the habits and methods of brokers everywhere...