Word: states
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dedicated battler for the good of humanity could hardly be more wrong. Much as his inventions did benefit humanity, Edison's object was to make money, as much as he could. His first patent was on a device for automatically and speedily recording votes in Congress and state legislatures; but because such a machine was seen as a threat to the filibuster, the legislators did not want it. Edison later took delight in recalling what he had resolved then and there: "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof...
...only eight to ten cars a month, has already written off the U.S. market rather than invest the money required to meet its specifications. Maserati, which sends half of its output to the U.S., is waiting to see if its product has passed a pollution test in California, a state with the most stringent environmental rules in the U.S. Maserati Managing Director Alessandro De Tomaso is confident that his car will be approved because of a costly new engine that reduces pollution and improves gas consumption-but that also cuts Maserati's vaunted vroooom...
...Justice for All may be the worst thing to happen to Baltimore since the War of 1812. If this movie is to be believed, Maryland's largest city has a legal system that would make a police state seem appealing. The judges are all psychotic or perverts or worse; the lawyers are all self-serving hypocrites; the cops all regard suspects as "scum." When criminals go to jail-usually on trumped-up charges-they invariably get murdered shortly after incarceration. Indeed, if the American hero of Midnight Express had come from Baltimore, there would have been no reason...
Frost and his staff were at first elated by the results of the initial meeting. Their spirits plunged when reports filtered back that Kissinger would be allowed a period of rebuttal to "clarify" his comments. They suspected that the network was kowtowing to the former Secretary of State because he is a powerful man and has a fiveyear, $1 million contract with NBC as a consultant and commentator. Behind-the-scenes negotiations over ground rules turned the next day's taping into a pressure cooker, but Frost believed that the integrity of the project was still intact...
...mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily as they are born, and dying anyway so soon after they are born-and yet each child, every one, has all the potentiality, has it still, and completely, to leap from their low half-animal state to true humanity. Each one of them with this potential, and yet so few can be reached, to make the leap...