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...food and hunger expert Lester R. Brown says, "The issue is no longer whether food represents power, but how that power will be used." Butz is admittedly a politician as well as an agricultural economist. He would use the power of food more aggressively to restrain the Soviet Union and increase American influence in ravaged areas...
...anoints himself profusely with Mennen Spray Deodorant, Lavoris, Johnson and Johnson Baby Powder, Canoe and Binaca--leaves Thelonius Monk and Bartok albums strewn "carelessly" about and waxes philosophically ("Pain...it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.") He knows what he's doing, and yet somehow can't restrain himself...
...Peach State who shook almost every hand in Georgia to steal the governor's chair five years ago has potential appeal in his freshness and "pragmatic liberalism." He touts himself as a businessman and manager who knifed the Georgia bureaucracy from 330 departments to 22. He promises to restrain monetary growth while stimulating employment with New Deal-ish measures and busting the trusts. He backs a strong but "streamlined" defense posture and calls for reducing both atomic weapons and power plants. He wouldn't abolish the CIA but would assume responsibility for its actions. He is adamant on Israel...
...students at large until we are allowed to play Yale and Princeton." In the summer of 1886 the faculty agreed to allow the team to schedule Ivy League contests, if the team adopted rules to tame the game's "bestial nature." New groundrules, when they were adopted, did not restrain the players for long. By the early 1890s Harvard and Yale were stunning each other with such devastating innovations as the flying wedge, a formation eventually banned in all U.S. football leagues. After the 1894 match the Boston Globe ran a special box listing the game's players and casualties...
Serious Problem. Those words might, with Galbraithian irony, be applied to the author's own belief in wage-price controls as a panacea. Corporate and union power is indeed a serious problem for any government trying to restrain inflation, and there are times when wage-price restraint must be enforced. But Galbraith-style permanent controls tend in the long run to suffocate economic life by distorting market forces, discouraging business investment and initiative, and creating shortages. They also breed worker resentment over lost wage boosts that translates into more social and political unrest than a popularly elected government...