Will Carroll
Will Carroll
Will Carroll is a sportswriter specializing in the coverage of medical issues, including injuries and performance-enhancing drugs. Carroll's "Under the Knife" column appeared on Baseball Prospectus for eight years during his stint there as a senior writer, and he also contributed to the site's radio efforts as well as the Puck Prospectus spin-off site. He is the author of two books on sports-related medical topics. Carroll has no formal medical training...
character individual nexus
Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.
christian attitude personality
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
country issues gold
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.
fear persistence evil
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
government way pressure
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
new-york practice london
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
party political would-be
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
decision political revolution
Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions
winter west danger
By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West
mean giving cost
Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production on one price level and then, later, offer the finished product for sale at a somewhat higher price level. This situation encourages production because it gives confidence of an almost certain profit margin.
order nwo growth
The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.
pregnancy years united-states
It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.
war rome years
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.
civilization perspective historical
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.