Word: smotheration
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...Roman Polanski's student days? No, just the game-show people beginning theirs with Truth or Consequences, the first of no fewer than 25 half-hours of vapid-fire questions and gaudy prizes. On through the day come a succession of dazzle-dentured, sharp-suited emcees, attempting to smother their contempt for their work and their contestants under a line of chatter as false as a roofing salesman's guarantees...
...market; they accused the Agriculture Department of depressing prices by issuing harvest forecasts that were too high. George Watts, a poultry industry spokesman, told the House Agriculture Committee that unprofitable prices had forced a large broiler producer to close its Tennessee plant, destroy 800,000 fertilized eggs and smother 300,000 newborn chicks. About 1,000 Western cattlemen threatened to withhold beef from market. The tactics were reminiscent of those that farmers used to protest President Nixon's second price freeze last summer...
...point is well taken. Bureaucratization, which flourished amid the growing burdens of government and the greater complexity of society, was designed to smother policymakers in blankets of legalism, compromise and reappraisal-and thereby prevent hasty decisions from being made. The centralization of government that led to Watergate has spread to economic institutions and beyond, making procrastination a worldwide way of life. Many languages are studded with phrases that refer to putting things off-from the Spanish mañana to the Arabic bukra fil mishmish (literally "tomorrow in apricots," more loosely "leave it for the soft spring weather when...
...Coach Shero, "The Broad Street Bullies" are an extension of his own Darwinian ideas. Explains the former Ranger defenseman: "In professional sport, the strong survive and the weak fall by the wayside." To keep his players tough, Shero does not smother them with compliments when they play well. "That's just the way I am," he says. "I told my wife 'I love you' once, and that was the day we were married...
Although some Republican Governors warned against letting the Watergate scandal dribble out bit by sordid bit, that continued to happen last week. Witnesses before the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities added pungent details about the pressures to help smother the scandal. Depositions given by John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman dug more deeply into the planning of Watergate and the coverup. White House memos described efforts to set up an illegal security apparatus in 1970. CIA memos under mined the President's Watergate defense by showing that politics, far more than national security, motivated the White House attempt...