Word: profits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Groping Attempts. Gardner believes that the old set of arrangements, from unmanageable city governments to uncoordinated federal programs, is dying. "Meanwhile, one can see at all levels the groping attempts to create a new system-a system that will be less wasteful of resources, that will profit by the advantages of modern large-scale organization, and that will give a wider range of Americans easy access to the benefits of our society." Optimist that he is, Gardner hardly imagines that Utopia will spring forth full-blown once such a machinery is created. He believes, rather, that a new series...
...purchasing power, and 78% of its manufacturing, Ohio is blessed with excellent transportation facilities, generally amicable labor relations, and some of the lowest utility rates of any state. Just as important, Republican Governor James A. Rhodes's administration has painstakingly projected the image of a state where "profit is not a dirty word...
...midnight fun. In Night Games she sees it as a heap of moral garbage. The film as a result made a certain stink at this year's film festivals. At Venice it was banned from public showing, at San Francisco it was berated as "pornography for profit." The statement was made by Shirley Temple, a critic with rather frivolous credentials, but it is essentially correct...
Fifth, these big black markets may guarantee enough incentive and enough profit for organized crime so that large-scale criminal organization comes into being and maintains itself. It may be--this is an important question for research--that without these important black markets crime would be substantially decentralized, lacking the kind of organization that makes it enterprising, safe, and able to corrupt public officials. In economic-development terms, these black markets may provide the central core (or "infra-structure") of underworld business, capable of branching out into other lines...
...army teaches many men skills which are not inherently "military" and will later prove useful in civilian life. It trains men to build radios, clean engines and fly planes. But it does not provide this training for fun or profit. The army, as the best of its generals insists, is no poor man's college or vocational school. The man who gets his education in the army pays for it with at least two years in bondage...