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...Knee-Jerk Cycle. "A rake's progress of this nature could not continue for long," warned Healey in spelling out the details of an austerity program that placed stiff taxes on items ranging from cigarettes to sewing machines. "If people insist on paying themselves more than they're earning, somehow or other the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whoever he is, has got to take it away again or the whole thing will blow up." Although he stopped short of advocating statutory wage controls, Healey further outraged the unions by offering a budget that will in effect allow unemployment...
Picking up the Healey gauntlet, several union leaders responded by asking for even higher wage settlements, the most astronomical being the National Union of Seamen's demand for an 81% increase. The knee-jerk cycle continued last week as an incensed Healey threatened to levy still more taxes-a move that provoked left-wing Labor M.P. Norman Atkinson to call publicly for new party leadership...
...serves the needs of many women who are beyond the knee-jerk angry stage and now seek analyses of their anger and models of how to put it to positive work. Most of the female characters in the works Spacks studies are negative models--descriptions of people women don't want to be, the victims of anger and frustration. 'To work and to love" is a prescription which was seldom made for these women, whose fate instead...
...what upset the faculty more than anything else in those years. Heimert says was students' "mindless sympathy" with activities that posed a threat to the functioning of a free university. "What you got in 1968-69 was a truly overt generational anger. There was a knee-jerk support for anything done by the young, and suspicion of anything done...
...Thieu and the American government should recognize that communist domination of Vietnam is inevitable, even if they are not prepared to admit it is a good thing. That kind of shift in attitude will be a difficult one especially considering the closed mind of President Ford, a knee-jerk anti-considering, and his advisers. The Ford administration's position seems to be a reactive one not well thought-out or borne out by past experience. It involves urging huge amounts of military aid for a government that has been consistently unpopular corrupt and suppressive of the basic freedom...