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...traditionally been viewed as perversions, like sadomasochism, were now proclaimed "alternative life-styles," presumably self-fulfilling for those attracted to them. Joseph Epstein, in his book Divorced in America, argued that for those on a lifelong mission of self-fulfillment, the very thing that led individuals into marriage?more growth???was bound to lead them right on out; the ties and obligations of wedded life blocked the proper unfolding of the self. But, points out Carlfred Broderick of the University of Southern California's marriage and family therapy program, "total growth, total narcissism, which is supposed to fix everything, doesn...
What the explanations really illustrate is a continuing erosion of worldwide confidence in the U.S.'s ability to manage its economy. In just about every area that matters?inflation, productivity, investment, economic growth???the performance has been deteriorating, and last week provided still further evidence. Almost from the moment that inflation once again hit double digits in April, the Administration has been blaming the rise on food prices and promising that the climb would soon abate. Some food prices have begun to subside, though the Labor Department's June inflation rate showed that for the third month...
...hate people." Ray's explanation: "The only way they like the earth is when it has no people on it ... because people, of necessity, change the environment [and] use its resources." But many others in the state, including farmers, fishermen and some businessmen, worry about her views on growth???that she wants to go too far too fast...
...uncertain about the social and intellectual purposes of education. Politicians throughout the West have trouble determining the boundaries involved in a free-enterprise system mixed with government control. Moreover, in place of the heady economic expansion of the past quarter-century, they must now cope with the counterfeit of growth???inflation. Even those who do not accept the gloomy prophecies of the Club of Rome realize that at least some limits to growth must be expected. The feeling of having reached a frontier, a limit of possibility, brings on grave anxieties and confronts politicians with an issue that they sidestepped...
...with the exception of military and space industries?so that only 30% to 50% of all new techniques developed by scientists are actually put into timely use in Soviet factories. As a result, the Soviets are falling ever farther behind the West in the technologies most essential to future growth???computers, automation, petrochemicals and telecommunications. Nor are Western firms overly eager to rush to Russia's assistance. Fiat's auto plant at Togliatti opened two years late and is still convulsed by bureaucratic and labor difficulties. Stuttgart's Daimler-Benz has backed away from a Soviet invitation to build...