Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last April, Congress took a flying leap in the dark. Responding to pressure from politically powerful oldsters, it raised the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70, although so little study had been done that estimates of the economic and social consequences were only horseback guesses. The move alarmed businessmen, who feared that retaining aging workers would clog the channels of promotion and reduce the hiring of young people, especially women and blacks. But when the law finally went into effect on New Year's Day, the worries had substantially diminished. Many employers now think the law will have...
...concerned that the employees will consider it a slight. James M. Seamon, vice president of Nalco Chemical Co. in Oak Brook, Ill., asserts: "We have to change people's thinking around to help them feel that accepting a job with lesser responsibility means no loss of face or social standing or personal prestige...
...with errors only 35% to 40% smaller than those arising from careful guesstimating. Perhaps unnecessarily, Eckstein adds: "There's plenty of room for humility." The humbling failure of scientists to predict surely either the course of nature (as in the weather) or cultural dynamics (as in economic and social change) may be one factor that licenses the numberless irrational prophets who proliferate in today's age of ostensible reason...
...Senator Kennedy to finally do something and President Carter's plea for human rights, are admirable tokens of appreciation but to rest on their words is not good enough. As King once said, "The virtue of patience will become a vice if it accepts so leisurely an approach to social change." Let us not wait until another King birthday has passed...
Outside the church members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference protested against expected cuts in social welfare programs in Carter's budget for fiscal...