Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough? The left wing will say we have to be more strongly 'Communist' in order not to lose more ground on our left. The right wing will say we have to recover more of the floating vote from the center and therefore we have to become more social-democratic." The outcome of the debate may well determine whether Eurocommunism remains a plausible strategy for the flagging Communist parties of the West...
...enacted, she feels, the fast rises in Government outlays are basically finished. "We have built almost all of the interstate highway system, and we don't need another one. Because the baby boom is finished, the pressure to increase spending on schools is mostly over. The jumps in Social Security taxes are likely to be much smaller. We are basically home free until the year 2010, when the baby-boom kids will become the elderly...
...named Jackie, and the middle one with Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando. Today, Actors George Burns and Art Carney and Actors Studio Patriarch Lee Strasberg are teamed for Going in Style, now filming in New York City. "It's about three old guys living together on Social Security," explains Burns, who at 83 is the oldest of the trio. "I asked Lee how old he was. He told me 77, so I asked him to get me a glass of water." Burns cracks that he has no trouble looking the part -"with a lot of makeup." Say good night...
Indeed, many social scientists warn of a "shortage psychosis" and see the jittery outbreaks of minor hoarding during the '70s-runs on saccharin, beef, coffee and canning lids-as a sign of a major problem ahead. If uncertainty is allowed to continue, says Johns Hopkins Behavioral Scientist M. Harvey Brenner, "then people are really likely to do panicky things...
...only verifiable fact is that lines are forming, and anyone reluctant to join may not get his share. Says Detroit Psychologist Philip Owen: "If an individual sees a line, he's apt to get into it, even if he doesn't know what it's for." Social pressures against overbuying disappear; everyone can hoard in good conscience.' One refrain dates back to World War II: "I'm just stocking up before the hoarders get here...