Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advice for President Carter: Damn the polls! Full speed ahead...
Labor Law Reform. The Administration supported the union-backed bill to tighten rules covering unfair labor practices by management and to speed up legal proceedings when complaints are brought against employers before the National Labor Relations Board. The House passed the bill, but conservatives managed to kill it with a filibuster in the Senate...
...small factions are not pushed around by any overbearing majority. Today, such is the fragmented atmosphere of public discourse, that it is sometimes hard to remember that majority will or consensus exists, and, indeed, these seem to crystallize less and less often nowadays. When truckers dislike a nationally mandated speed limit, they turn into an instant faction and willfully protest the law with massive slowdowns. Los Angeles motorists, irritated by an experimental expressway lane for car poolers, defeat it not with persuasion and argument but by circumventions and defiant traffic blockages. It has become commonplace to see popular sentiment disdained...
Since the boats race against the clock rather than head-to-head, the fans never know for sure how their favorites are doing. The complicated seeding system, which combines the previous year's finish for an organization with the Cambridge officials' estimate of speed, often puts fast crews behind slower ones...
...producer is a curse as well as a blessing. Eno specializes in the synthesized wail. He is credited with co-authoring only one song on the side, but the spacey sound is heavily influenced by his work. The titles are all new and banal with the exception of "Speed of Life," which has an unusual, European-pop kick. Kraftwerk is three albums ahead of Bowie-Eno here. This side should come complete with a light show...