Word: squanderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carry out completely such a shift in public policy, and the change in popular psychology on which it must be based, could take decades, even generations. M.I.T. computers to the contrary, society probably has the time. But it must not squander that time in a heedless pursuit of the wrong kind of growth...
...life: Burgess, impecunious and convinced he was dying, sat down to write novels as a way of providing a legacy for his wife. Instead of dying, he lingered on to become a chronic writer. Rich, healthy Howard, by contrast, can think of nothing better to do than squander his easy money on a banal overseas tour and then commit suicide. It is not that Howard is outraged or dis gusted by life; he simply does not know what to do with...
...problems of overpopulation, war, famine, racism or crime are to be solved, rational processes will solve them. Those who squander their mental energies upon occult matters, such as astrology, tend as a class to depend upon the technologists and rationalists. I fear that if the present trend continues, our society will evolve toward exquisite dependency upon a dangerously small percentage of our members who remain in the rationalist camp. Should this come to pass, I fear that within a generation we would return to 30-vear life expectancies, rotten teeth and digging in the dirt with sticks for our food...
...been twisted. Yet a senior U.N. official noted that if the vote had been a matter "of life or death, the U.S. could have squeezed the delegates much harder. That it failed to do so indicated that while Washington did want to win, it was not prepared to squander all of its political credit to do so. The fact that Nixon took no part in the U.N. effort reinforced the belief that while the U.S. was fighting to keep Taiwan in, it was not fighting with everything...
...Many economists agree with Walter Heller that "an excess profits tax is a silly tax." It did not work well at all during the Korean War. Such a tax now might only prompt executives to hide their companies' real earnings by accounting sleight-of-hand, or to squander in expense-account living the money that they otherwise report in profits. Moreover, businessmen use earnings for a large part of their investment in plant expansion and modernization-and any reduction in that would not only make the U.S. less competitive in the world but reduce the number of new jobs...