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For example, I've argued from ev-psych premises that extreme inequality of income, all other things being equal, tends to raise the divorce rate.
) "Holy Ghost power !!" might sound like something out of a used-car commercial--and Duvall is as clear-eyed on the capitalism-evangelism correlation as the Marxist-leaning Antony Thomas in his skeptical 1980s documentary Thy Kingdom Come ...Thy Will Be Done . But Duvall also subscribes to an American dramatic tradition (which can be discerned in works as various as The Iceman Cometh and The Music Man ) that says that any fervent belief, even one based on uncertain premises and fueled by an impure source, can give life, the way a placebo can be an authentic remedy if it empowers the body to heal itself.
There are still bars and clubs here, but the area has become almost mainstream, and office towers are replacing many of the sinful old premises.
Its premises cannot be questioned, let alone refuted, and even things to which it's irrelevant--like Mundell's Nobel prize--have to be understood in its light.
The Consumers’ League, organized in 1899, adopted a voluntary label to be attached to garments made by manufacturers that abided by labor standards—that is, they obeyed state factory laws, manufactured on their premises, employed no children under 16, and used no overtime work.