Word: sloganeered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiendishly complicated and the stakes the highest imaginable. The outcome will test the ability of a democratic society to solve the most involved technical questions, ones on which experts offer diametrically opposed opinions. Caution, sobriety, careful weighing of risks, which cannot be escaped, ought to be the watchwords. Slogan shouting-"Hell, no, we won't glow," vs. "Let the bastards freeze in the dark"-merely impedes progress toward America's energy future. Simply put, the nation needs to move forward to improve the safety, reliability and efficiency of all forms of energy-including nuclear, and the many alternatives...
...Gray Panthers, a group of aged activists, have been lobbying long and hard for higher interest for small savers, and have publicized their campaign through buttons and bumper stickers bearing their wry slogan: "Savings may be hazardous to your wealth." They have a point. Just to keep even with double-digit erosion, the head of a family of four who earns taxable income of $20,000 would have to be paid interest of 11.25% on his passbook savings, or more than twice the current rate...
Both the Peking Daily and the Worker's Daily have attacked the posters' call for human rights as "a slogan of the bourgeoisie and not of the proletariat." A front-page editorial in the Peking Daily contained one of the most ferocious assaults on capitalism to appear in China in several months. Said the paper: "Capitalist society is a mercenary slave system, involving police persecution, suicides, prostitution and so on." The Daily also castigated "certain young comrades" for their "lack of patriotism" in "begging for the support of imperialism in their espousal of human rights...
...Clyde Ferguson Jr., professor of Law and former ambassador to Uganda, told a crowd of about 50 that human rights had become a "slogan" which the United States promoted and emphasized without defining its effect on individual international regimes...
There are those, of course, who would like to see slogan eering die off entirely. Precisely because the art appeals to emotion, some idealists and intellectual purists disdain it in favor of cool, rational discourse. This crowd is clearly trying to swim against a very strong human current. Moreover, they are out of touch with the problems of both leadership and the human dilemma. The problem has never been to get people to think about doing something. The difficulty has always been to get them to act. From time immemorial, leaders have found that one of the best ways...