Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Mumford, the spread of science and technology is creating a "universal, but inadequate society," what he terms the "Mega-Machine." Unlike previous systems of oppression, the Mega-Machine is not based upon a principle of punishment, but on the contrary idea of reward...
...second of his three William Belden Noble Lectures on "Religion and Politics," McCarthy said that corruption cannot be reduced until the moral level of the entire society is raised, and until we "accept the idea that there is a special obligation attached to holding a public office...
...critics, the prospect is chilling; to some, it is the most objectionable idea in the report. It strikes them as a time-consuming system to plan, and painful to participate in. Explains one, people from different departments "don't normally see each other," the meetings would be difficult to arrange, and once they were held, everyone would wrangle for hours trying to cram into the "core" as much of their own subject as possible. "If you talk to anyone in any department, agrees another professor, "they'll say their subject fits right into that irreducible minimum...
...Congress had little affection for the idea until Lyndon Johnson became President. Though he had been conditioned to traditional fiscal notions, he was so impressed by the success of earlier Government stimulants-such as the tax credit for capital investments and liberalization of depreciation allowances-that he put his power and prestige behind tax-cut legislation and in 1964 persuaded Congress to go along. Largely as a result of that and of the whole range of Government stimulants, the nation's real output and real wages since 1961 have increased by one-third, while corporate profits and the economy...
...argues that much of the post-Viet Nam fiscal dividends should be paid directly to the states and localities, whose legitimate needs for education and other spending cannot be met by Great Society programs alone. His idea, borrowed from Andrew Jackson, will make every Governor, state-university president and homeowner drool. It calls for no-strings subsidies to states of roughly $30 per capita at first. This would enable the states to spend what they should and yet hold down their property and sales taxes. While the plan would penalize rich states to benefit poor ones, Heller contends that...