Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will not argue that the American pie has perhaps been expanding over the last century, but it is yet to be proven that this economic expansion is attributable to, or in spite of the grapplings of the new upwardly mobile business elite. Perhaps Thorstein Veblen had a better understanding of the workings of a capitalist-industrial economy when he detailed the anti-social nature of business. In Veblen's view, business is forced by its basic orientation of profit-seeking into a policy of "sabotage" of production. It must fight against the "inordinate productivity of the machine" by keeping prices...
Ford, however, is not operating with a simple strategy in mind. His game plan is complex, because though his initial formation is simple, options abound, and Ford has proven his tactical skill in utilizing them...
...that are the fruits of development to this point for the poor. There is a difference that can be made however, and an alternative future that can be shared more equally with the Third World. Perhaps, if the Food Conference helps Americans to see this necessity, it will have proven useful at least...
...erected a wall of experience between himself and Dukakis, and the tactic may have worked. The Boston Globe, which had never before endorsed a Republican for Governor, praised both men for their abilities last week, but concluded, "in these traumatic times the state should not abandon proven leadership...
...crisis that rocked the world last year, the autocratic ruler of Iran has, to many people, indeed seemed to be basking in the light of the Almighty. Iran sits atop an estimated 60 billion bbl. of crude oil, or roughly one-tenth of the world's proven reserves. The disposition of "this noble product" (as Iranians like to call it), and the money to be made from it, is in the firm hands of one man: His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans), Shahanshah (King of Kings). Once dismissed by Western diplomats as an insecure...