Lynn Advocacy, Inc. Adkins, in Dun's Review (June 1978), 666
Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, along with other U.S. insti- tutions, Big Business was subjected to severe press criticism, public skepticism, and increased federal regulation. A few corporation man- agers turned to advocacy advertising in responsedither to upgrade their "image" or to speak out on major business-related issues.
Mobil Corp., with $4 million budgeted for such advertising...
many Americans, these jobs are attractive to the illegal aliens moving in at the bottom of the wage structure.
Nevertheless, Wachter argues, available statistics suggest that about 50 percent of all illegal aliens earn wages at or above the legal mini- mum. Assuming that illegal aliens constitute 30 percent of the nation's lowest-skilled labor, if all of them were forced to leave the country, wages at the bottom of the job ladder would be driven up. Of the estimated 6 million jobs now held illegal...
they suggest that the working woman is generally happier and more satisfied with her life than the woman who does not work. But some of these findings, says Wright, of the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, have been based on only a small sampling of predominantly working-class women.
Analyzing data from broader surveys conducted the National Opinion Research Center, Wright finds that working women "typically carry the double burden of work and...
the National Opinion Research Center, Wright finds that working women "typically carry the double burden of work and household commitments." They may enjoy their outside earned income and increased independence, but "pay for these benefits in reduced free time for themselves, a more hectic pace, and a more complicated life."
Surprisingly, neither working women nor housewives express much "outright dislike" for housework; and Wright's analysis of overall hap- piness,...
the cities' regular car- riers with no additional premiums. More difficult to overcome is the popular resistance in low-income areas, where residents say they al- ready have enough shacks and junk (they want asphalt playgrounds and concrete turtles). And disputes persist among recreation officials over what properly constitutes "play" in a technological, urban society.
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in the Classroom Robert...
Thomas Samaras, in The Futurist (August 1978), World Fu-
Beautiful
ture Society, P.O. Box 30369, Bethesda Branch, Washington, D.C. 20014.
The ever-increasing stature and size of North American and North European people has long been regarded as a good thing-a result of prosperity, better diet, and superior medical care. However, in ecologi- cal terms, human bigness is unquestionably bad.
So writes Samaras, a California systems analyst. Short people re- quire less food, oxygen...
Diana Crane, in Annals of the
American Academy (May 1978), 3937
Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.
American physicians are moving toward a social definition of "life1'- defining an individual as being alive in terms of his ability to interact with others, rather than purely physical criteria.
Questioning more than 3,000 neurosurgeons, pediatric heart sur-geons, internists, and pediatricians, University of Pennsylvania sociol- ogist Crane found that most physicians (75 percent) agreed...
Diana Crane, in Annals of the
American Academy (May 1978), 3937
Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.
American physicians are moving toward a social definition of "life1'- defining an individual as being alive in terms of his ability to interact with others, rather than purely physical criteria.
Questioning more than 3,000 neurosurgeons, pediatric heart sur-geons, internists, and pediatricians, University of Pennsylvania sociol- ogist Crane found that most physicians (75 percent) agreed...
the news media, the American public was treated to little more than misleading stories that "misinterpreted public opinion polls, focused on the personal contest . . .between the President and Senate leaders, and culminated in pious warnings that the treaties were not all that significant after all. . . ." Moreover, the media failed to tell the public much of anything about Panama and why the Panamanians had strug- gled for years to obtain the treaties giving them de jure independence...
the press for the expansion of its liberties and its right of inquisition surely contributes to the erosion of privacy and emphasizes the need for protection."
Miller applauds those statutes~opposed newsmen-that protect individuals from unwarranted public attention (i.e., laws prohibiting the naming of rape victims and restricting the release of certain crimi- nal records). He particularly objects to the zeal of gossip columnists and the revelation of private details of a person's life without...