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...Liberals got into trouble because of Trudeau's reputation for arrogance, and also because voters are confused by a series of policy flip-flops and fudges stretching back over a year. After campaigning hard against wage and price controls as a cure for Canada's double-digit inflation, Trudeau abruptly introduced them last October, alienating labor. Shortly afterward, the Prime Minister unsettled the business community by announcing that the "free-market system" in Canada was dead. What he meant was that new solutions, possibly government-imposed, would have to be found for the persistent problem of stagflation. Many...
...later became an architect of Richard Nixon's 1972 "Southern strategy." Today he eagerly displays to visitors in his office a two-page list of "accomplishments in behalf of blacks." Items: "Assisted Mrs. Victoria DeLee in expediting day-care funds for Dorchester County"; "Cosponsored bill to find a cure for sickle-cell anemia...
SftP says the capitalist system forces to focus on coercing the individual to fit the system, and that such a society places profit before people. Among the examples cited by SftP are: attempts to cure cancer through recombinant DNA research rather than by eliminating carcinogens from the environment; screening factory workers for genetic susceptibility to tungsten-caused cancer rather than eliminating the hazard; pinning the blame for deviant behavior and widespread social ills on the genes of individuals rather than on the structure of society...
...This book touches a sensitive nerve-how to make the most of available time. Though it is aimed primarily at businessmen who know they waste time and wish they didn't, its lessons apply to nearly everyone. One major cure for chronic time wasters, according to Edwin Bliss, a management consultant, is to write out lists setting priorities. Facing the truth tends to clarify things. Yes, indeed...
...about proper dosages, duration of protection and the chemical's effectiveness when used without other preventive measures-such as insect control and prompt, careful pruning or removal of blighted elms. Just as cautiously, Du Pont emphasizes that Lignasan is only an aid for controlling the disease, not a cure...