Word: realms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, the awakening of the public's conscience to RAND's role in Vietnam soon spread to include the whole realm of the elite Research and Development groups known as think tanks. Americans are realizing that their government encompasses not only the executive, legislative and judicial branches, but a fourth branch of "brains" whose job is to think, analyze, determine and recommend. No one elects these "thinkers," and no analyst must defend himself before the public. Yet they wield and uncertain and highly explosive power: the ability to scientifically determine the present and even the future...
There is in short a vast difference between humiliation and the reality that Nixon's oratory only beclouds. His own deeds in the realm of constructive negotiating offers in fact belie the narrow negativism of his public words...
ONCE upon a time, a band of grownup boys set out to build the world's happiest place in the fantasy realm of Florida. So they went to their moneylenders and their architects and they created a warm-weather wonderland of spaceships and riverboats, of wilderness campgrounds, turreted castles and lagoons. People came from far and wide -Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio-to visit this playland. And the builders, who came from the Walt Disney World Co., made millions happily ever after...
...Terminal Man, the near future is practically upon us. The theme is mind control through psychosurgery, today hardly in the realm of science fiction (TIME, April 3). Crichton's surgeons plant 40 minuscule electrodes in the brain of Harry Benson, a psycho-motor epileptic whose fits turn him into a homicidal maniac. The electrodes, powered by a tiny nuclear battery implanted in Harry's shoulder, deliver small electrical impulses which check the epileptic fit at its onset...
...where those in power believe the international expansion of American business to be consonant with the wellbeing of all Americans is very different from claiming that the presidents of those corporate giants have an active role in deciding America's day-to-day foreign policy. We face in the realm of foreign policy--especially in the Southeast Asian nightmare--a primacy of politicians: many businessmen would profit by an end to the war and a return to exploitative normalcy. One can correctly point to offshore oil interests in the South China sea as an underlying economic dynamic, but almost...