Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HERBERT STEIN, 55, an owlish and acerb economic theoretician, is a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He is now responsible for planning Phase 2 of the Nixon strategy: what comes after the 90-day freeze. Known for an intellectual agility that some dismiss as sophistry, he will need to be nimble in the task; for several years he has been a determined spokesman against the sort of policy Nixon finally adopted...
...laborers did deign to stay on the building site, their performance was desultory at best. Chided by a Bateson supervisor for not working, two Mafiosi claimed that the criticism had made them ill and walked off for the rest of the day. Others worked in slow motion. Attempts to dismiss the Mob supervisors resulted in more walkouts as well as threats. In February 1970, with the completion deadline six months away, Bateson officials tried a crackdown. Shortly afterward, a fire flared on the second floor of the building, causing $100,000 in damages before it was finally extinguished. The origin...
Bella Abzug might dismiss that last part as sexist condescension, but then again she might not. For all her rhinoceros qualities, she is deeply feminine (pace, Women's Lib) and, as former Campaign Manager Doug Ireland says, "vulnerable as a lady." She recently withstood withering political satire at a correspondents' dinner but burst into tears when someone mocked her robust figure. Arthur Goldberg is said to have won her over once by remarking that her pictures did not do her justice...
...final excursion is scheduled to begin Monday at 3:24 a.m. E.D.T., with a tour along Hadley Rille, one of the many canyon-like features on the moon that have long puzzled scientists. Most experts now dismiss the idea that rilles were carved out by water, like the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos, N. Mex., which they resemble; instead, the canyons may be the result of lava flows. To help settle the argument, the astronauts plan to drive part way down the slope, which begins at a relatively gentle incline of about 10°. As the going gets rougher...
Much harder to dismiss are allegations that behavior therapy threatens man's freedom by manipulating patients like so many laboratory animals. San Francisco's Allen Wheelis, who is both psychoanalyst and thoughtful novelist, believes that a human being who submits to behavior manipulation "is treating himself as object and to some extent, therefore, becomes an object." In a similar vein, Los Angeles Analyst Judd Marmor recently wrote that the new method comes "uncomfortably close to the dangerous area of thought and behavior control." Not so, says Behaviorist Alan Goldstein of Temple University. "People come to us to have...