Word: socializer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donovan was an eclectic recruiter; among the people he brought into the OSS were Conservative Columnist Stewart Alsop, Marxist Political Philosopher Herbert Marcuse, and Chef Julia Child, who tended intelligence files at the OSS office in Chongqing (Chungking). So many OSS people were listed in the Social Register that critics complained that the initials stood for "Oh So Social...
...explain a decision to participate in the oil industry only in terms of joining its capitalist comrades. It could cite home-grown precedents, too. The best is probably the Tennessee Valley Authority. It was a model of the yardstick competitor not only in price but in services and social concern, reclaiming land and replanting forests...
...UNION PRESIDENT on the company's board of directors? That must be Germany, land of co-determination and 50 per cent worker representation on supervisory boards. No? Perhaps Sweden, social democracy, powerful labor movement. No? Let's start by eliminating the countries it couldn't possibly be--The United States. What do you mean, it is the United States. The Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and Milton Friedman United States...
Fleetwood Mac has often been called "the group of the '70s," and, listening to Tusk, it's not hard to see why. The songs, as usual, deal with personal themes of lost love and regained love; the group never opts for even the slightest bit of political or social commentary. While the forces of punk and disco explore the fringes of rock, Fleetwood Mac contentedly drifts with rock's mainstream. And it has paid off: phenomenal sales, constantly sold-out concerts, and almost universal acclaim by critics who never quite latched onto new wave...
Horner said she is concerned about the social limits to growth and the economic triangle of basic research, innovation and production, adding that her work as chairman of a National Science Foundation task force on research would contribute to her understanding of the issues...