Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insurance company ran an advertisement arguing for limited product liability laws, urging people to "Write a letter to your legislators. Be heard." Such action seems to be grassroots lobbying according to the IRS tax code which prohibits the deduction of expenses "in connection with any attempt to influence the general public...with respect to legislative matters..." In a letter to the subcommittee, however, the company denied conducting grassroots lobbying; it presumably deducted the costs of the advertisement. The American taxpayer thus footed some of the costs of this company's political advocacy...
...analysis of 1976 initiative campaigns in eleven states concerning both mandatory deposits on beverage containers and nuclear energy led Dr. John Shockly of Western Illinois University to conclude that "In 1976 a record-breaking amount of corporate spending occurred to defeat various measures, and in general their campaigns againt these propositions were successful...
Droney said he was at first unwilling to help in the investigation, but changed his mind after discussing the case with Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University...
Woodcock and Davis promote this viewpoint in what is perhaps the inevitable consequence of the catastrophe theory controversy, a book designed for the layman. Except for an occasional article in Scientific American or Newsweek, literature on this new methodology has been highly technical--and few members of the general public are sufficiently adept at differential topology to wade through such formidable math...
Woodcock and Davis do, however, give ample consideration to objections to the theory: that it is incapable of making useful predictions; that it is so general and qualitative as to reveal nothing we don't already know; that alternative mathematical models already exist; and that its proponents have based their claims of its wide applicability on a few phenomena well-suited to the model. Finally, two of the harshest critics have charged that in substituting pure theory for "the hard work of learning the facts about the world," idealistic mathematicians have used the theory "deduce the world by thought alone...