Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus the economy of the 1960s has shown a fantastic resilience to shock and slowdown. It has surmounted such strains as sluggish demand in 1961, a stock-market plunge in 1962, the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, a foreign monetary crisis in 1964, and the Viet Nam escalation in 1965. The problems of 1966 and beyond seem infinitely greater than earlier ones. But so, too, are the opportunities...
...film does not treat the war as one made by men, for real and imagined reasons, with real and terrifying effects, it misses the most important and neglected events which are happening in Vietnam. The film allows the audience to react to the torture and the blood with abstract shock, as it might to a primitive ritual, and thereby encourages the illusion that we are not really in Vietnam, and that the suffering is very far away...
...vital ones which we as a public have refused to consider until now. Your editorial reflects an apparent failure on your part to acquaint yourself with Nader's published work; should you do so, you will find that it is well researched and documented, and hardly flamboyant. Your shock at his comments on the Rolls-Royce should not obscure your appreciation for his contributions regarding other automobiles and their defects...
Doctors are so accustomed to hearing about bad effects of smoking that the report by four U.S. Navy physicians came as something of a shock...
...change of management from the elderly Valletta to the next-generation Agnelli might mean a difficult adjustment for some old hands at Fiat, but Agnelli says, "There's going to be no shock at all." Although he now acquires operative control of the firm, he already had financial control as head of the family holding company, I.F.I., which owns 25% of Fiat stock. Agnelli became a vice president of Fiat in 1945 and then a managing director in 1963, all the while swinging socially with an easy smile and a classic Roman profile. The skiing and boating...