Word: movement
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Some economists now wonder if the nation has so successfully insulated itself from a 1929-type depression that it is condemned to 13% or worse inflation. Robert Heilbroner argues that the postwar measures to avoid another Crash and Depression have "put a floor under the downward movement of the economy." This guarantee against disaster, in Heilbroner's view, has changed economic expectations so much that corporations raise prices and unions demand higher wages more recklessly than they otherwise would. The result is faster inflation. Thus the cure for the Great Crash, seen from this perspective, has created side effects...
Despite a degree of political harassment and the humiliation and frustration of seeing her works banned, Gordimer protests she falls far short of Rosa's ideal. "I've never been named, and wouldn't be (naming is a form of punishment less severe than banning, but which restricts movement and visits). People are named as a result of direct political activity. It takes a lot of courage to do that," she says...
...that is a pitifully amusing parody of the John Dean-H.R. Haldeman "Let's Make Money Off of Watergate" autobiographies. And somehow, Vonnegut manages to work in some particularly cogent statements about the mistreatment of Sacco and Vanzetti and the history and problems of the twentieth-century labor movement in general...
...Pele--no silky smooth movement, no Oscar-winning imitations of a gazelle. No, just good, solid soccer--the kind of play that should see him hitting the post, or just inside of it, with something other than his knee in the upcoming ASL season...
...what about individual men? In lashing out at the male oppressor class, will the lesbian movement (whatever it may be construed to be) strike at persons regardless of their individual philosophies or potential...