Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Traditional "liberal" and "conservative" slogans are simply not adequate to cope with the shortage crises now dominating the economy. The bankruptcy of traditional solutions to our economic malaise is apparent; the persistent stagflation seems immune to both traditional monetary policy and proposals for creation of new agencies to generate recovery...
...colleagues saw nothing unusual about the revisions; they had simply forgotten to turn off their brains. It is an occupational disease of the group. Ever since the creation of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, they have been Hollywood's hottest hyphens - the trade term for writer-producers...
...standards, unconcerned with conventional consonance, that timider people set aside. The tunes everyone had known as a child would probably meet the standards--"Columbia Gem of the Ocean" and "Rock of Ages" were always popping up in Ives's music--and so might something entirely new, some quarter-tone creation uncorrupted by respectability or qualifying compromises. They'd both have to meet the same standards, though. They could be lumped together, and if the juxtaposition sounded funny--Ives wrote a great piano trio with a second movement labeled TSIAJ, for "The Scherzo is a Joke"--the joke was on neither...
Gerald Ford, presiding over a republic somewhat less ideal than Plato's, disagrees. Last week, as part of his war on inflation, he urged the creation of a "National Commission on Regulatory Reform" that could indeed act as guardian of the guardians-the deeply entrenched, highly independent federal agencies that regulate everything from the air waves to pipelines. The commission's task will be formidable: to identify and eliminate the hodgepodge of antiquated rules that in Ford's words, "increase costs to the consumer without good reason in today's economic climate...
...creation of an underground newspaper to promote both radical political thought, and a re-examination of the teaching methods implemented at the law school...