Word: public
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pauses, seems lost in thought, then begins again, determined to make her point. "I just don't think we give enough credit to our public. The Viet Nam memorial was first seen as some sort of elitist statement. It's like you see it before you really see it. But if you don't have preconceived notions, the presence of the object will touch you in some way, and you'll be in dialogue with it. I mean, what do you do with people like Tom Wolfe? His fear of modern art is sad. He must have been flogged with...
...they swing between imperturbability and panic, Americans leave many experts wondering how to get society to gauge an acceptable risk. Almost a decade of dwindling public confidence in the Environmental Protection Agency, which was treated like an unwanted appendage by the Reagan Administration, has led to a proportionate rise in the attention given to claims made by private consumer and environmental organizations that focus on food safety and risks to health. Dan Howell, the director of the Americans for Safe Food project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, says that groups like his are flourishing. "Our membership...
...magnitude to the one in Armenia last December, which killed 25,000. "A substantial contributor to the much lower death rate in California was that California was conscious of the risk and made significant investments as a precaution," says M. Granger Morgan, head of the department of engineering and public policy at Carnegie-Mellon University. But after last week, earthquakes are going to be viewed as a much more persistent risk than they were before. That will force many communities to choose which risks to take seriously. Says Bruce Bolt, a seismologist at the University of California, Berkeley...
...answers could be found there on just what to do with these famous fellows. Keynoter Daniel Boorstin, former Librarian of Congress, suggested creating "a House of Experience," like the British House of Lords, where retired, talented Americans could offer their wisdom. Public television's pragmatic Roger Mudd pointed out that the last thing a new President would welcome would be an official pulpit for the guy he just ran out of office...
...intelligence committee, both Democratic and Republican, defend their caution. One congressional source described the October plan as an ill-defined "hodgepodge." Committee spokesman James Currie added that conducting any high-risk covert operation just before a presidential election could unduly and unpredictably influence the election if the operation became public. Said Currie: "No matter what side you're on, you probably don't want to let a U.S. election turn on that kind of crap shoot, especially if there's no reason it has to be done right then...