Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ECONOMIST, the phenomenon is a paradox. Modern societies have become increasingly concerned with distribution--with dividing the pie--when it is clear that the great majority of people can raise their living standard only by producing a larger pie. Certainly, this development seems to contradict the basic economic precept that people desire to simply increase the amount of material goods they possess as their primary economic motivation...
Without a doubt, the best song on the album is "Short People," which has been getting a lot of air time on the radio lately. It's also the first song on the record and sets a standard that most of the other cuts can't compete with. Newman has some great insights about short people and communicates them with his own balanced view. His first lines...
...also rather indirect, at least in the sense that the giant gas producers, which are also the big oil producers -Exxon, Texaco, Standard Oil of Indiana, Mobil and Gulf-struck an above-the-battle pose and rarely got down into the pit themselves. Said David Foster, executive vice president of the Natural Gas Supply Committee, the producer-sponsored lobby that operates on an annual budget of $500,000 to $750,000: "To attempt to lobby this issue on the concerns of the producers of natural gas is an impossibility. When it's your customers who are saying they...
...boost to the small family farmer by granting 160-acre parcels of the West's vast quantity of public arid land, and making it fit for agriculture by bringing in federally subsidized water. According to the suit, larger landowners (including such agribusiness giants as Southern Pacific Co., Standard Oil and Tenneco Inc.) gradually cut themselves in for Government water, ignoring the requirement that they sell any land in excess of 160 acres in exchange...
...studying dying miners in the grimy English town of Leeds in 1933-34, he concluded that management should do everything possible to prevent illness in workers, not just take care of them after they become sick. He put some of his ideas into practice as medical director of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey from 1946 until 1955. Said he: "It is not uncommon to find an executive who worries more about tire replacement on his fleet of trucks than the health of his employees...