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...Meidner approach to economic democracy isn't nearly as attractive politically as the first. The average worker would not see many concrete results for years to come. The approach would probably frighten a good deal of capital out of the country. Its centralized character would frighten Liberals and Centrists, who are afraid of union domination. Moreover, it would eventually require a complete change in the relations between the national union federations and the union locals, with the federations enforcing national union policy over the opposition of various locals. With the common enemy gone, the battles over central versus local controls...
...joining the Fly is no easy task either, since its non-alumni membership runs to about 60 undergraduates and five grad school students. If those odds don't frighten you the club's initiation fee (over $100) and monthly dues (over $25) might scare...
...world is always jammed with people, all of whom walk around purposefully, looking for bargains and talking to one another. The vast space is easy to move through, and doesn't weight them down. Somehow they have gotten a grip on the place, and it doesn't frighten them to shop there. Everything there works as the customers expect it to work, and that a place can be so big and manageable at the same time seems to make people happy. I tell people that it's sort of a monument to the human spirit--but furtively, because...
...looking across a sea of red flags at a mass rally of 200,000 Communists in the Piazza of St. John Lateran, Berlinguer declared, "The political line of the Italian Communist Party promises the only valid democratic alternative to reactivate Italy. The gains of the Communist Party can only frighten the corrupt and the overbearing. They cannot frighten honest citizens...
Ronald Burns, chairman of HEOC, said that by publishing the statement. Harvard was attempting to frighten employees away from supporting the unionizing drive...