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Left-leaning critics such as historian Jackson Lears, writing in the New Republic , say that the widespread adoption of Taylor's theories amounted to "a horror story" in which cold-blooded management stripped workers of their last shreds of autonomy.
9 percent of First-Class Mail; and First-Class household advertising mail amounted to 9.9 billion pieces or 9.9 percent of First-Class Mail.
It could also be argued that charging an individual by his DNA amounted to charging him in secret because few people would recognize their own genetic code even if they read it in a newspaper.
In issuing what amounted to a public vote of confidence in the market, IBM was actually continuing a venerable tradition of Establishment attempts to quell selling panics by intervening loudly and decisively.
However, the Court has since explained that the Rust counseling activities amounted to governmental speech, sustaining view