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Some would overlook the cause of today's crisis and have us believe that an even greater government role in the market-place could provide a solution; they suggest price-controls as one alternative to Reagan's plans. Far from curing the root causes of inflation, price controls temporarily ease its symptoms at the cost of each individual's loss of economic freedom. When price controls are removed, the economy will return to at least its former, possibly worse, inflationary condition...
...coffee commercial." Besides a certain verbal flair, Vidal brings experience to his candidacy: he ran an energetic though unsuccessful New York congressional race in 1960. True, he has not voted since 1964 and has lived in Italy for much of the past ten years, but Vidal thinks Californians will overlook this when they see him on the hustings...
...outlawed it in another, tolerated corporate trusts in one season but tabooed them in later let the states oversee political parties at one time and taken them under the federal wing in another. One flaw of the usual federal-state debate is that participants often overlook the ad hoc evolution of the U.S. scheme of governance; they imagine that governmental structures take their shape more from the niceties of theory than from the proddings of a society beset with messy problems. As former Governor Orville Free man of Minnesota once said: "The literature of federal-state relationships is replete with...
...Mutations are certainly a major cause of cancer," Cairns said, "but I think that the transportation of DNA from one chromosome to another is also a major cause of cancer. Many researchers look only at mutants or at industrial causes like smoke inhalation and overlook the role of DNA transportation...
...more intangible difficulties. "The use of robots has social costs that are not being addressed by anyone in the U.S. today," he says. "By designing a production process that minimizes human participation, you freeze out the worker's control and you freeze out his initiative. We often overlook the impact of robots on the jobs that remain. Today, if a worker assembling components has a daily quota of 100 units to fill, he can, for example, work flat out and assemble 60 in the first half of a shift, leaving only 40 for a relatively unpressured second half...