Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Public Pressure. Embarrassed Arizonans insist that the state's criminals are a minority (a truism anywhere) and that a genuine housecleaning has begun. "Two years ago," says tough Attorney General Babbitt, "I walked into this office to find that it carried no criminal jurisdiction. It was that bad." He finally obtained authority from the legislature to set up a statewide grand jury and funding for a prosecution effort. Criminal laws are being strengthened, and the legislature is expected to approve a bill outlawing the practice of investing proceeds from the rackets in legitimate businesses. Public pressure is mounting...
...flap illustrates a hardy truism: steel-price increases arouse more political excitement than increases in the price of almost anything else. True, the decibel level of the uproar this time hardly matched the furor of 1952, when settlement of a bitter steel strike turned largely on how big a price increase mills would be granted under Korean War price controls, or 1962, when President Kennedy marshaled all the power of the White House to force a steel-price rollback. Still, steel men note caustically, aluminum makers in November announced price increases of as much as 11 % on some products without...
...struggles by women and oppressed nationalities (Afro-American, Chicano, Asian-American, Native American, Puerto Rican) for democratic rights in the 1960s reconfirmed for the millionth time the truism that it is the masses in motion who make history. Unable to be constrained, these dynamic mass movements pressed forward, insisting that the U.S. government accede to their demands for justice and equality...
Many Americans accept as a truism Winston Churchill's famous aphorism - "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." But many foreigners - even if - they seem to have feel lived in that the U.S. democracy, for at a least time in its American incarnation, is not right for them...
...Deal-Great Society approach that led the nation to look to Washington for solutions is now in real-though sometimes unrealistic-disrepute. Nebraska's Democratic Governor J. James Exon echoes the new truism: "The candidate who can clearly spell out how to restrain Government and Government spending...