Word: muggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pounds. There are also numerous financial regulations that would blunt the impact of foreign investment on the U.S. economy. For one thing, U.S. antitrust laws treat foreigners and Americans alike in their restrictions on market control. As for cocktail-party patter about secret takeovers by Arabs, such financial hugger-mugger is unlikely. Present disclosure laws require revelation of the actual owner of holdings of 10% or more in any company whose stock is publicly traded...
Friedman also takes a hard line against industrial polluters. Libertarians see polluters in the same category as muggers and rapists. A person who pollutes the air another breathes is just as forceful and violent as a mugger who breaks another man's leg. Friedman maintains solid support of all civil liberties and solid opposition to all victimless crime laws. He is against the draft, military intervention, aid to Saigon, and the very existence...
JONES: PORTRAIT OF A MUGGER...
...book about a mugger. The subject brings various expectations. A certain horror-fascination at getting in on the other side of urban America's living fear; the noncerebral prospect of a bloody how-to guide; perhaps a fast freak-show visit into the mind of an animal. The one thing a reader does not ex, pect is a troubling, memorable encounter with a human being. Yet that is precisely what James Willwerth produces. To enter this mugger's world means that inexorably, as one of the mugger's friends put it, "you don't think about laws...
...that the world of the poor must be fundamentally revamped or the conservative insistence that such men must all be locked up for life. Nothing less will really reach the Joneses, and nothing like either course seems immediately possible. Meanwhile, Jones has temporarily laid aside his life as a mugger and is working as a hospital orderly as he did once before. How long he will continue neither Willwerth nor Jones himself can guess. ? Jose M.Ferrer...