Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shultz: Why, Mr. Commoner, should we all live by your standard of judgment of the relative value of various products when we have a means that allows us to give everyone a chance to express their judgments by the way they spend their own money in the market? Your concept of social governance would decide what products to produce with our resources by an essentially political process with the decisions made in Washington by politicians and bureaucrats...
...rest of the album is made up of titles like "Heartbeat" or "Passing Time" or "Leaving You"--all pretty standard Bad Co. fare of fast-rocking numbers like their debut record's "Can't Get Enough" or Straightshooter "Feel Like Making Love" interspresed with slower ballads like "Seagull" or Run With the Pack's "Silver, Blue and Gold." Bad Company hasn't really developed along radically new lines, except for theri closer meshing-together as a group and a tighter control over the abrupt transitions from one volume and rhythm intensity to another that flawed passages of their first...
...might just as well sit in the second row, for the standard collegiate hash will reach every corner of the theater, arousing smiles on an audience full of old-and new-timers with a weakness for the snaphappy sound. The Kroks rendition of "Blue Moon", along with its tortuous and ticklish bass line, was worth the price of admission, so if they program it this year, they'd do well to keep the concert short, and release you in time to see Casablanca, which should be leaving the Brattle very soon...
Many of the students cite reasons for the decline in activism other than the standard sociological "tight job market--pre-professional preoccupation--gotta get good grades" synthesis. Some of them reject the absence of an overwhelming issue like Vietnam. The issues are still there, only the interest is not, they suggest...
...come the winter, we will have a very bleak picture in the province of Quebec... That, I think, is irresponsible on the part of the people in charge because the first thing people want, and I'm sure Quebecers want their culture very badly, is to have a decent standard of living...