Word: garbagemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encountered political and religious issues. His consistent bumbling in these spheres is the unintentional leit-motif of Broca's Brain. When in doubt. Sagan shies away from the secular implications of his lofty ideas. In the course of declaring, for example, that we will one day have robots for garbagemen (at current prices, the human version are "expendable"). Sagan mentions hastily that "the effective re-employment of those human beings must, of course be arranged; but...that should not be too difficult." Such is his political sagacity...
From then on it was garbage time. The squad travels to Southeastern Mass. this afternoon, where hopefully the garbagemen will be on strike...
...does Coleman emerge with even the slightest dedication to change in the social sturcture? Does he, with his blunt horse sense, stumble upon even the simplest analysis, that garbagemen should make more than doctors because their trade is more physically taxing? Or does he, with his background in labor economics, volunteer any even slightly liberal measures to redistribute wealth? He does not. He writes...
...agents moved into the 21 police districts, posing as cops, garbagemen and vagrants. They frequented gambling dens and policy wheel operations, and they found plenty of crooked cops. These police were regularly making their "meets" with the persons who were buying their protection or picking up their "drops" of money left for them to collect at designated spots. An area where "dirty money" was to be made easily was often dubbed a high-crime or "fast" district, and the cop who was not on the take was often automatically suspected of being an undercover agent...
Harris revealed that in his latest survey, garbagemen were more respected than the president--only 18 per cent of the American public now feel confident in the actions of the president and the executive branch, according to his figures...