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In 1968, it became a private, for-profit company.
These increasingly alarming reports, briefed to the President and top officials, became part of the context in which the new administration weighed its options for policy on al Qaeda.
Its message is that the advanced technological future--what we now call the age of digitalization--will transform the human race into a new, probably soulless species, just as apes once became humans by the invention of the tool.
Lacking a sizable middle class of farmers and shopkeepers (who would arrive only after World War I), and undergoing intense and rapid capitalist development, large portions of Colorado, Nevada, and Idaho became sharply polarized along class lines--"labor in one camp, the employers in another, no in-between camp, with government a football between the two," according to the final volume of John R. Commons and associates' venerable History of Labor in the United States .
Meanwhile, reports the NYT , the new publisher of The American Spectator , Terry Eastland, is trying to find out what became of the nearly $2 million in Scaife grants to investigate Clinton the magazine received.