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...Dick novel (Blade Runner had many epiphanies, but it bore only a superficial resemblance to the author's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). For another, he has underlined the similarities of two decades marked by governmental snooping into its citizens' business and brains: the 70s, when the Nixon White House amassed a long Enemies List and used the FBI and its own resources to get dirt on suspected troublemakers, and our own, when anyone's telephone chats and email messages are in danger of winding up in a printout on the desk of a National Security Agency cybersleuth...
...decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took place in London 1956-1966 New sounds in the air, protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon line ... In Chengchow, ... two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet." Their warehouse of cotton had been untouched by the communists. Said a Red officer: "When the kettle belonged to Chiang, we tried to break it; now that it is ours, we want to preserve...
...Looking up from his computer, Gaddafi showed no inclination to surrender the role of philosopher-king that he began playing seven American presidents ago, during the first Nixon Administration, when he authored the Green Book, his idiosyncratic alternative to the theories of capitalism and communism. "I wish the whole world would read the Green Book thoroughly and profoundly," he said without irony. "Idealists in this world are very...
Moreover, Ingram doesn’t seem to understand that the American rail passenger system was privatized, and it went bankrupt. That’s why the Nixon administration created Amtrak. And the private freight railroads, which are doing well these days, want no part of a return to passenger service. They couldn’t make money on it when they ran it, and they would require massive public subsidies to return to the passenger business...
...companies that have begun to change their work climate recognize the advantage in making use of the forty-six percent of the workforce who are women. Rather, as tends to be the case, a cultural stagnancy with a long legacy is to blame. As late as 1971, Richard Nixon vetoed a bill to create a national child-care system, deeming it a threat to the American family...