Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Rosenbaum, a consultant to the General Accounting Office and a former professor of theoretical physics at Boston University: "The public has been deluded into thinking that if all the scientists just buckle down, they can figure it all out. That's not true. When you have a modern, complicated technology, you just can't calculate everything...
...importance of American military strength when it is used for peaceful purposes." This latter-day Isaiah is trying his best to beat some of our swords into plowshares, but inside Jimmy Carter is the same belief found in most Americans-that our might has done more to preserve modern peace than any other single force. While he argues for disarmament, Carter intends to devise new and better weapons...
...realism," says Secretary of Defense Harold Brown of the awakening American attitude toward our strength. We drifted in the years after Viet Nam, embarrassed by power. The Soviets did nothing of the sort. By the early 1980s the U.S.S.R. will probably have caught up with us in almost every modern military category. Their research into new weapons of terror, though now behind ours, will perhaps exceed our own because of the sheer concentration of effort...
...business dollars flow into politics, more and more chief executive officers (CEOs)--company presidents or chairmen of the boards--from the biggest corporations are becoming personally involved in all levels of government. No longer content to leave the dirty business of lobbying to a vice president for legislative affairs, modern CEOs join associations like the Business Roundtable, which requires them to lobby personally Congress and the White House. Or they simply stalk the halls of Congress on their...
...next stop is a modern skyscraper across from Rockefeller Center. The 15th floor of the building houses the chairman of the Board of NL Industries, Ray Adam. In contrast to the massive security at the AT&T building, a single receptionist guards a wide hallway leading to the plush, carpeted depths of the office. Once I get inside, Adam immediately arrives to greet me, relaxed and smiling. Where deButts lectures, Adam chats; he calls me by my first name repeatedly, and in spite of myself, I am disarmed...