Word: redressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that very time, Karl Marx was writing Das Kapital, striking back at liberal individualism in the name of mankind. For the industrial worker, argued Marx, had been "reduced to a mere fragment of a man, mentally and physically dehumanized," and only collective action, state action, could redress his wrongs...
...policy. Then local committees could be set up in each nation to counsel government bodies. They would work with government planning offices to make sure that programs are realistic, and arrive at a satisfactory development effort between private and public activities." This kind of mechanism, concluded Rockefeller, "could help redress the balance which has thus far been heavily weighted on the government side. And it could accelerate economic growth, the all-important objective on which the Alliance's record has been least satisfactory...
...streets armed with lead pipes, and who live off on-the-spot fines imposed on passersby. Protests a shopowner: "You walk on the right side of the street and you are fined. You walk on the left side and you are fined." The average Congolese has little legal redress. Today, in a nation three times the size of Texas, there are only 47 judges to hear complaints-all foreigners, imported by the U.N. from such countries as Egypt, Sweden, Spain and Switzerland...
...kidnaping a top S.A.O. leader, Antoine Argoud (see below). But it seemed unlikely that Khrushchev would care greatly if Nureyev danced in Paris, or that Adenauer would object to being damned by Nikita on TV. On the other hand, when a government is not subject to censure or legal redress, who expects logic...
...redress the balance quickly, on the cheap? Although long-range ICBMs are too big and costly to mass produce, Russia's factories are geared to churn out the smaller medium-range and intermediate-range missiles. They must have seemed just right for Cuba, which is within easy range of the U.S., and hence potentially far more accurate than Russian-based missiles...