Word: manual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what was left of political dialogue. Radicals painted "Amerika" on campus walls. Police were "fascist pigs." Women's Lib's Gloria Steinem even took up the cry recently, claiming that a female reading Playboy must experience the same revulsion that a Jew would feel encountering a Nazi manual. Meantime, ideologues on the other side professed to see Brownshirts in the bearded radicals...
...wall. Or ring their doorbell and expostulate in calm, well-reasoned tones. If a bargain gadget advertised for sale turns out to be not as advertised, arm yourself with the advertisement and demand redress. Faced with an outrageous bill for a crankcase repair, demand to see the "flatrate manual" used in the trade to standardize prices for parts and the mechanic's estimated time per job. If a taxi driver or a waiter is obnoxious, do not just give him a meager tip-give him none at all. If you are elbowed aside by some pushy character...
...business manual lists 284 subsidiaries of ITT subsidiaries, but others are untabulated, and there are also subsidiaries of subsidiaries of subsidiaries, or sub-sub-subs. -Columnist Joseph Kraft nevertheless insisted last week that the Administration genuinely feared in the spring of 1971, when the economy and a number of overstretched Wall Street brokerage houses were in trouble, that an ITT-Hartford breakup would have hurt the economy badly enough to damage President Nixon's political stature...
Susan Keller, professor of Sociology at Princeton, led off the panel with a prediction that technology will eventually eliminate all boring jobs and that there will be a new emphasis on mental as opposed to manual work. Keller also foresaw a day when work as we know it would no longer be necessary to ensure sustenance for society...
...named because Chairman Mao issued instructions on May 7, 1966, that the Chinese army must "be a great school." China also has May 7 schools, at which errant party members engage in ideological self-criticism and reindoctrination, combined with manual labor...