Word: happen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough people in the papers say we aren't interested in minorities, then eventually that is what will begin to happen," Hargadon said...
...observers say, the Shah becomes particularly angry at the aides who surrounded him. Out of misguided loyalty, he now senses, they shielded him from reality. "My advisers built a wall between myself and my people," the Shah bitterly told Sadat at Aswan. "I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people. Don't let that happen...
...wounds. But then came a cathartic outpouring of soul searching, similar to the one that emerged in the U.S. after Roots was shown. Young people were appalled to be reminded that many of their elders had not protested the slaughter. "How and why could this sort of thing happen?" asked one horrified young viewer. "Where were the churches? Why did they not protest? Why was there no resistance?" Those who had lived through Hitler's reign reproached themselves. Said a Frankfurt book salesman: "I'm forever ashamed of my generation. How could we allow a beast like Hitler...
...that should happen, the implications would be nearly disastrous. Productivity is the key both to raising living standards and to controlling inflation. If each worker produces more, then total output will grow rapidly and employers can raise wages without jacking up prices; the rise in output per employee will offset the higher costs. If productivity is flat, almost every dollar of wage gains is translated into price boosts. Over the decades, price rises have closely followed increases in employers' unit labor costs?that is, wage gains minus productivity...
...think it would take a system of reforms to make it more pluralistic. In economics: some businesses not run by the government, but private business. Politically: multi-party system. It is possible for our society to have these changes. Today, this will not happen, because we have an elite to which such changes will not be good. This elite wants to have all possible power in its hands. It is afraid. It wants no change...