Word: limitless
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...essay, the Rev. William Fore, communications director of the National Council of Churches, discusses messages directly or subliminally being transmitted to masses of TV viewers. Among them: the good are usually weak; power is good, even if you have to be evil to get it; happiness consists of limitless material acquisition. None of these views are new or wholly inaccurate, but pervasive repetition of materialism and situation ethics, churchmen argue, can be overwhelming...
...Congress from Jaworski, who serves as counsel to the Business Roundtable, that strongly denounced the ACP. He said the proposed agency had a great potential for political abuse that "could be easily turned to the advantage of those who controlled it." Jaworski warned that the agency has "practically limitless statutory authority." His letter reached congressional committee members considering the legislation after the hearings had close and just before their vote...
...twist in one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S.: computer crime. It has grown from nothing 20 years ago to a $300 million annual racket today. With financial transfers increasingly taken over by electronic data-processing (E.D.P.) systems, the prospects for future swindles appear limitless. Says Philadelphia FBI Agent Michael Boyle: "This is the crime of the future...
...about them by credit bureaus- so that it can be corrected- they do not have a similar right to inspect files maintained on them by private investigators, insurance companies and other businesses. Says Linowes: "There were enough stories of data misuse to suggest that the potential for abuse is limitless...
...made its debut on these shores over a hundred years ago; a recognizable version of the modern hamburger was unveiled at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. But sophisticated new marketing and advertising techniques, computer technology and entrepreneurial zeal have whetted a nationwide hunger of apparently limitless depths...