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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notion that the Establishment 'buys' elections by campaign financing is a myth," Winter writes. It ignores the fact that the "outs" depend upon adequate financing to offset, at least in part, the advantages that the Establishment enjoys simply by being the Establishment. Winter further suggests that spending limitations would increase candidate reliance on fat cats. Why assemble a campaign kitty from a variety of sources with a variety of interests, when a small coterie of like-minded contributors can provide all that the law allows...
...American West. Women and children venture beyond the village perimeters only by day, and then with care. "When the Americans were still here, the government cadre could go all the way to the river," the chief recalled. "Now they can go only halfway." Future security, he said, would depend on regular government-troop operations. "If they have enough troops to make those operations, we will be safe. If they do not, we will be in trouble...
...called "emotional armor," and Bean's New England background had buckled him up tight in rigid inhibitions that ten years of classical analysis had failed to shake. Introduced to Reich's writings by a friend, Bean was fascinated by his theory that emotional and physical health depend on the free flow through the body of orgone energy, which finds its full expression in the Reichian orgasm-a happening that is physiologically similar to a normal orgasm, but is supposedly experienced as a quasi-religious convulsion of cosmic proportions...
...major problems is that municipal governments depend on property taxes, mainly from real estate, for an average of 85% of the money that they raise locally. This year these governments will collect some $37 billion in property taxes, up from $22.6 billion in 1965. But the property-tax system is a mess. Most fiscal experts agree that it is disgracefully administered and unfair to millions of individual taxpayers. Despite the legal requirement that property of equal value must be taxed alike, a Census Bureau study found that the typical homeowner can expect a tax bill that is 20% more...
Hosea Williams, deputy program director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said Saturday that bail funds are almost nonexistent and would depend almost entirely on contributions collected yesterday and Saturday at the park...