Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lane Kirkland, who is expected soon to take over from George Meany as president of the AFL-CIO, launched a sharp attack on the old 7% pay ceiling, calling a single guideline figure "a mad infatuation with a figure that bears within it the seeds of its own destruction." Kirkland wants to replace the old standard with case-by-case wage settlements. The top business representative on the board. National Association of Manufacturers President R. Heath Larry, argued equally adamantly against moving toward any à la carte pay guide. At another point in the meeting, Kirkland and R. Robert Russell...
...father's exasperating personality: "He had no notion of what to do; some bewilderment at the fact that other people existed, independently of himself, made him cling to the idea that events had not happened ... He invented excuse after excuse for delaying the funeral, one of the mad reasons being that Miss H. would be put out by his absence from the office. Perhaps the reason lay in a sort of Tolstoyan anger at the fact of death; it is certain also that he loved his mother passionately. There the body lay in the house. The result was horror...
...league's 25,000 members are aggressively Christian, patriotic, mad as hell and resolved not to take it any more. The nation is on the Interstate to ruin, they feel. And, well, who doesn't these days, what with Soviet troops off the shores of Key West, the dollar sinking like the Lusitania, drug pushers in the schools, homosexuals in the pulpit, bureaucrats in just about everything, and goodness and patriotism generally on the run. Yet Harrell's Louisville pilgrims have converted these common gripes into obsessions...
...what the people want or do we have to tip over your desk?' " While Von Stahl explains how to bring treason charges against a Communist-loving official, Courtney Smith, a representative of the conservative Liberty Lobby, sums up the mood of the participants. "They're really mad. I've heard people here actually talk about killing these so-called politicians. They figure they're traitors. Have not the Russians said they will bury us? And yet our Congressmen and Senators vote to aid and abet them. That's treason. They should be hanged- slowly...
...innovation into Harvard's traditionally ultra-conservative management, HMC has outpaced many other schools; it nonetheless remains far behind inflation. Both Cabot and Putnam, however, believe Harvard and its endowment will weather the current crisis. Cabot says inflation should become a more emotional issue. "Eventually, kids will be getting mad not about South Africa, but about the price of lettuce. South Africa is an important issue, but people haven't shaken their fists enough about inflation," he says. If they do, then Cabot believes the government could launch a crash energy development program that would spur the economy, like...