Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This book is a somewhat patronizing but generally fair examination of a topic that notably agitates otherwise calm people. It would certainly help the popular reputation of traditional therapists if they presented their findings in such a lucid fashion as the author of Psychobabble. Rosen quotes Gore Vidal that "most of our writers tend to be recorders," yet he himself could never be mistaken for one of that dreary band. Unlike the psychobabblers he decries, he doesn't practice what Jacoby called (and Rosen recalled) "the monotonous discovery of common sense." Instead, he reminds us, skeptically but never petuiantly, that...
...fair price is what the fight is all about. From 1974 through 1976, the farmer saw prices rise higher and higher as he found markets-at home or abroad-for just about everything he grew. But with worldwide bumper crops this year, the U.S. farmer has watched prices plummet to a five-year low: down 7% from 1976. Wheat, which sold for $2.92 per bu. last year, is bringing $2.55 in Kansas City. Corn has dropped from $2.75 per bu. to $1.80 in Chicago, soybeans from a high of $10.45 last spring...
...grain we could produce to aid a starving world." The farmers did as they were told. The upshot: a huge surplus of grain that drastically reduced prices. In 1973 the Government was concerned about the increasing price of meat, and imposed ceilings. "Every time we begin to get a fair price for one of our products," says Yokum, "the Government steps in and puts a ceiling on it." To counteract the price controls, farmers kept their cattle off the market, thus building up another surplus that substantially cut beef prices. Now that farmers have finally sold off this surplus, complains...
Things have been heating up in Walpole's maximum end since the beginning of the summer The rate of stabbings--a fair condition of tension in the joint--rose. Four Block started heating up quite literally in August when the prison administration welded shut the vents on the third tier, after they caught an inmate smuggling objects through the tiny slits...
...script competition was scrupulously fair and professional and the officers were willing and available for discussion and guidance. There was no "needless encouragement," nor did anybody who wished to test his/her mettle have the door slammed in their face. Those who competed knew--or should have known themselves--what kind of work was involved, and what the risks were. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. JunMakihara...