Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence aimed at priests. The poor were offered "the happiness of the [spiritual] kingdom of which no human sorrow can deprive them." Outraged liberals charged that a campaign was afoot to "betray" Medellin. Brazil's bishops took the lead in attacking the document; a new, somewhat less conservative version was subsequently prepared. The Brazilians also rebuffed two top officials of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission who made a quiet trip to persuade them to mute political statements at CELAM...
...failing, it may in fact be that overfondness for the jugular. Yet even the most contentious critics, like Gary Deeb, 33, of the Chicago Tribune, are closer than their predecessors to the journalistic ideal of accuracy and informed judgment. Whether they have any real impact on television is less certain, but none of them doubt the seriousness of their subject. "It's our principal medium," says Shales. "Television is more important than theater or film. It's a shared experience unlike anything people have ever known...
...there is wide agreement on at least some of the major causes, which have very little to do with worker attitudes. In the complex U.S. economy, how much an employee produces depends far less on his zeal than on his education and training, and even more on the efficiency of the machinery that he works with. The most important reasons for productivity...
...Research Foundation: "The OPEC countries are free to adjust their prices if they want to, and they could well increase them so that not only will spot prices go up, but official prices as well, at least temporarily." It seems that the energy crisis is turning out to be less the moral equivalent of war-as Carter has called it-than the equivalent of Chinese water torture...
...percent of all sedentary Americans declare they will desert to the enemy and take up jogging during 1979. On the other hand, Harris finds that the jogging craze-and growth of interest in all forms of physical exercise-is slowing down. "Involvement will continue to increase," says Harris, "but less rapidly than it has in the past...