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The paradigm of the exploitative, oppressive relationship in the American experience is, of course, slavery, and therefore in 1865, as the first task of the new constitutional order, we banned the very possibility of private relationships of slavery, established either by force or by consensual agreement between master and slave.
They, no less than Asian companies, at times have an interest in low U.S. tariffs, treating oppressive Asian dictators with kid gloves, and so on.
Yet, the question of liberty and its potential abuse in an oppressive relationship remains a flash point of debate.
What keeps his work from becoming campily oppressive (like the last, dreadful Batman picture) is his respect for the untranscendent flatness of ordinary life.
Escalating doses of sedatives followed by oppressive hemodynamic and ventilatory side-effects sometimes provide an indication for therapeutic musculoskeletal paralysis to rapidly get control of life threatening agitation syndromes.