Word: deadened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover up department stores and shopping malls, offices and civic buildings, convention centers and hotels. Designed out of fear-fear of the untidy hustle and bustle of city streets and "undesirables"-the walls spread fear. By eliminating the hospitable jumble of shop fronts, restaurant entrances and newsstands, the walls deaden the very city life their builders claim to "revitalize...
Surf. Waterfalls. Rivers. Country Roads. Video Fish. Even Video Fireplace. Images to lull the senses and, in some cases, deaden the pain; Muzak for the eyes. Video entrepreneurs are selling 60 taped minutes of soothing pictures for folks to turn their televisions into environmental lullabies. Most of the cassettes were initially marketed to hospitals, doctors and dentists, but, reports James Spencer, president of Environmental Video Inc. of Manhattan Beach, Calif., "we are finding that the consumer is more interested than the medical market." The tapes are made to glance at, to distract, not to watch. Sitting down for a serious...
Gilder maintains that steeply progressive tax rates and Big Government destroy wealth and perpetuate poverty. He contends that federal levies, which skim off as much as 50% of income from wages and 70% of earnings on interest and dividends, deaden incentives to work, save, invest and take risks. The result: instead of using their savings for productive investments, too many people seek tax shelters and pour their money into "gold, baubles, flimflam films and real estate." High taxes are responsible for the U.S.'s While poor preparing the productivity growth because Administration's so economic policy much money...