Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taxpayers' Revolt. The process begins by setting labor directly against government. Police, firemen, sanitation workers and other public service employees, battered by inflation, strike for higher wages and benefits. Services to the general public grow worse, and the infection spreads. The ideal of public service erodes?children watch their teachers walk picket lines. The government becomes an adversary. To yield to labor demands heats up the inflation further; to resist spreads further chaos. With paychecks squeezed on one side by inflation and on the other by rising government expenses, a taxpayers' revolt of one kind or another grows likely. Observes...
...Colony. That leaves the people who look inward, the mystics. Thompson approves of the effort of Yogi Gopi Krishna and German Physicist C.F. von Weizsäcker to meld Eastern wisdom with Western science. Such a union represents Thompson's ideal of Pythagorean science, involving "cosmological thinkers for whom art, religion and science are different idioms of the single language of contemplation"-in short, what Thompson regards as a means to the new planetary culture...
...that mankind can be brought to care enough about the future to do what is necessary to save the present - especially as regards self-denial. Can 20th century civilization give up the "ethos of 'science' " (not to mention the work ethic) and for sake the now monstrous ideal of growth for the ideal of stability? Heilbroner sees little reason to expect that either of the two main socioeconomic systems will manage such self-abnegation. Both capitalism and socialism, he argues, share the values of technology - production and efficiency - with small regard for the pillage of nature...
...Slingerland met, and Fox showed her figures on average Expos class sizes. The overcrowding of the classes was the main selling point of the exemption proposal; Slingerland had said all along that most Expos classes had well over 20 students, and had cited 15 as the ideal class size. So when Fox told her that he had calculated the average Expos class size to be about 17.5 students, he took a lot of the clout out of her argument...
Going south to where the sun shines brightest is an ideal way to spend spring break. If someone other than yourself is footing the bill it makes the prospects for a good time all the better. If, however, you have to practice day in and day out, a Florida vacation might not seem all that attractive. For Harvard's spring teams, most of which are going south, the one week sojourn is the final stage of preparation for the opening of regular season competition in early April...