Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with "the 400-millisecond miracle," "reverberent field dominant," and "silver-lined circuitry." Don't worry if you don't understand these terms; you're not supposed to. The companies are preying upon your technical ignorance and attempting to dazzle you with impressive-sounding terms so you will trust their "expert" judgment of which product is best...
...Brain Trust. With the legislative machinery in more disciplined order, Democrats hope to pass a spate of bills that have been bottled up or ignored: mandatory wage-price controls, national health insurance, a major public works program to relieve unemployment, tax reform including a scaling down of the oil-depletion allowance, an export monitoring system that will more effectively prevent the sale abroad of commodities in short supply at home, and the revival of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, an agency created by President Herbert Hoover in 1932 to help business survive the Depression...
...President is prepared to fight back, and he doubtless estimates that he will have more of a chance with Rockefeller at his side, operating as a kind of domestic Henry Kissinger. Without additional formal title but with clear authority from Ford, Rockefeller will recruit a brain trust to delve into every aspect of domestic policy; he will arbitrate among conflicting Cabinet proposals and formulate plans for allocation of the nation's natural and financial resources. To give so much clout to a man with presidential ambitions of his own would seem to be an act of singular self-effacement...
Toward Independence. On the whole businessmen say that they are not worried about the proposed change of government. Says Denis Catt, the British manager of Melanesia International, the islands' biggest trust company: "Independence has got to come. It would be quite wrong if it didn't. But it's highly likely that when it does, the financial center will be seen as a benefit and allowed to continue...
Since when is an open marriage merely "an agreement to allow outside affairs"? All this time I thought it involved a few minor things like mutual trust honesty and the ability to be a whole enough person to love someone without choking him off from his own potential. Defining open marriage with that stupid, glib little phrase is like defining the ocean as a can of tuna fish...