Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that rate, the U.S. could save $50 billion if joblessness were reduced from the present 7.8% to 5%. More important, in human terms the long-term unemployed are a serious problem. The unemployment rate among blacks (12.7%) is dreadful. It slows overall black progress and contributes to the decay of the cities. As long as modern society encourages so many women to want to work, more jobs must be created for them as well as for teen-agers -the alternative being a nagging despair and disillusionment with the capitalist system. These are social problems not solvable by overall economic policy...
...what could be called a stream-of-consciousness technique, but the result is much more like a whirl pool. Events, characters and dialogue are all sucked down into a powerful nar rative vortex only to resurface later. In The Autumn of the Patriarch, the debris of despotism phosphoresces with decay, and the vultures in charge of that final palace cleanup are history's ageless witnesses...
...Screenwriter William Goldman (All the President's Men) are not content with making an espionage yarn. They have tarted up their story with phony resonances intended to link it to such things as war guilt, the Nazis and the Jews, McCarthy witch-hunting, and the blight of urban decay as emblematic of modern anomie. Thrillers can deal fleetly with ideas, even difficult ones...
...moral issues at stake for this great country are the material waste and moral decay brought about by the arms race, open or clandestine intervention in the domestic life of other countries, support for unpopular and authoritarian governments, and the establishment, together with other powerful nations, of an unjust international structure - in short, the formulation and implementation of a foreign policy subservient to the dictates of the economic interests of large consortiums, instead of to the moral imperatives that have always distinguished the people...
Equally important are the vigorous efforts by Southern states to lure businessmen fed up with high taxes, physical decay and demanding unions in the old urban centers of the North. Georgia, for example, working with information supplied by its Chamber of Commerce, zeroes in on "suspect companies," which are feeling the pain of ever deeper tax bites in the North. Once a year about 35 executives are given a lavish "red carpet" tour of the state. Each tour brings an average of $50 million in capital investment and 1,000 new jobs...