#mic

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#advantage #after #child #child labor #despite

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#antagonism #between #built-in #control #created

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#drastically #economic #economic activity #entering #environment

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#development #economic #economic development #mandated #new

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story. ↗

— Bill Condon

#been #bennett #cast #change #ensemble

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future". ↗

— Henry M. Wriston

#dreams #economics #education #jobs #occupations

The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#box #box office #dropped #dry #gimmick

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#declaring #emergency #grand #itself #mighty

When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#drumming #fleetwood #half #i #looked

If the Bush Administration cannot ensure Americans that they will be safe from the flu, how will they protect our country against a possible bio-terror or chemical attack? The American people deserve better. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#against #american #american people #attack #better