Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measured the sheer horsepower that these Republicans provide for the American economic machine, it would be far greater than their numbers suggest. If they are to be criticized for being indifferent to those victimized by the very system they use so successfully, they are also to be credited with being the critical mass in a system that has mixed liberty and freedom with material rewards better than any other that the world has produced...
...suggest that an honorary gold medal be awarded to Japanese Gymnast Fujimoto for his performance with a broken...
Aside from his proclivity for disclosing Mafia secrets, Roselli could have been killed, federal investigators suggest, because some members of his old Chicago Mob-including Tony Accardo -felt he had been keeping more than his share of the Las Vegas boodle. Following another theory, some Senators who had once laughed at his jokes during his sessions on the Hill called on the Department of Justice to find out why he was murdered. U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi ordered the FBI to determine whether Johnny Roselli's testimony about the CIA plot to get Castro might somehow have...
...Peabody's share of total U.S. coal output has remained steady: about 12%. Meanwhile, since 1968, the proportional market share of the eight biggest coal companies has fallen from approximately 41% to 37%, while the share for the 50 biggest companies dropped from 69% to 66%-figures that suggest that the coal business in the U.S. has become less concentrated and more competitive in recent years...
With the resurgence of corporate profits, that question is likely to be posed more often and more insistently. Opinion polls suggest that a majority of the public believes that corporations earn much more than they actually do, and favor higher taxes on profits. Hence, it would behoove Americans, too, to rid their minds of what Samuelson characterizes as the suspicion that profits are "an exploitative surplus which fat men with an unfair penchant for arithmetic skim from the gross national product...