Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colonel laments to him, but the only war we have-is a brutally mechanistic game which feeds upon its own data and upon the bodies of the data-collectors. Within the game's gaunt stupidity individuals play only peripheral roles, stepping quietly here and there so as not to disturb the data. Sloan the amoralist believes himself only "an actor whose inhumanities are necessary to the plot. Whose victims are straw people. The point of a drama is not its carnage but how the hero turns...
...Please do not disturb." a sign hung carefully on the tent said. However, in the police state imposed here yesterday, the chances for peace and quiet are slim indeed...
...Inflation Alert." What continues to disturb buyers is unemployment and inflation. The G.N.P. price index rose at an annual rate of 5.2% in the first quarter v. 5.9% in last year's fourth quarter. Last week President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers condemned the 13% wage increase recently won by steelworkers in the can industry as "clearly in excess of" productivity gains. The council warned that any such settlement granted to workers in the steel industry at large during this summer's negotiations could be ruinous to the industry's competitive position abroad. This...
...rights of an audience to free expression, according to this survey of judicial opinion, are considerable but not limitless. Ft the behavior of the audience violates the customs, of a meeting, warning is given, and intent to disturb is evident, the protections of the First Amendment have reached their limit...
...Development, "we have not solved all the problems yet. We are not ready to grant a permit tomorrow." In a recent statement, the U.S. Interior Department declared that the alternate Canadian route would "serve mainly to shift the location of ecological problems rather than cure them." Both routes would disturb wildlife, and both confront permafrost. Hot oil, piped through this frozen ground, might melt the land around it, causing the pipe to sag and break-tarring huge areas with toxic crude...