Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even within a framework of military or civilian choice such as the one McCloskey offers, young people have no choice but to serve. The estimated $20 billion cost of compulsory service seems better spent on ensuring freedom of choice while making the volunteer army a more attractive alternative. The fear of the draft has returned and, in the post-Vietnam era, this is one ghost legislators might do better to exorcise away...
What, then, is the "world at large?" It is the world where money is available to trade cereal. The world at large does not include the "most seriously affected" nations. Grain stockpiles are increasing in "the world at large." We need not fear a sudden monumental famine--but the citizens of much of the world can't get a hold of that grain...
...Kahn, the President's senior inflation fighter, has warned that any agreement in excess of the guidelines would move the Administration to intensify its efforts to deregulate the trucking industry. That would make it easier for new firms to pick up lucrative routes. The trucking companies and drivers fear deregulation because competition may reduce rates, profits and job security. So far, key congressional committees have been cool to deregulation. There are major trucking firms in almost every congressional district, and they can bring much pressure on their legislators...
...those who fear that the new researchers are out to reduce all human emotions and problems to chemistry's atoms and molecules, Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin, chief of clinical psychobiology at the National Institute of Mental Health, has a tranquilizing message: "There is a chemistry of the human brain, but it acts in response to the environment." Goodwin also points out gently that brain research has not yet produced any new treatments for mental disease. In fact, the only early result expected from the research is agreement of existing antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs to eliminate side effects. Ross Baldessarini...
...been flooded by thousands of deinstitutionalized patients, are beginning to cry out in anger. Says Manhattan Councilman An-.onio Olivieri, a liberal reformer: "The indiscriminate dumping of mental patients is creating new psychiatric ghettos in the cites. The policy is absurd." Psychiatrists are starting to share his concern. They fear that the increasing number of schizophrenics and other psychotics on the loose, particularly in the cities, may yet develop into an explosive political issue...