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Worthy stresses the vital need for leaders to resist the temptation to "withhold news of negative developments" when the struggle has begun. People can absorb temporary defeats, but they leave the battle if they are lied to, or if their leaders are not fully "accurate in technical, legal and political information" that they disseminate...
...SPENT ANOTHER DAY in the valley, taking walks to look at the animals and the crops and trying to ingest as much of the tranquility as my cells would absorb. I thought briefly about re-inviting myself there for part of a summer. Perhaps someday I will. But right now I know I would tire of the timeless hills and mountain brooks and would eventually wring the neck of a rooster that woke me on a sleepy Sunday. Summer camping never managed to accustom me to outhouses; I will never adjust to life without steaming baths. But when we drove...
Brazil recognizes that America, its best customer for shoes, cannot indefinitely absorb its footwear and is now making a strenuous effort to find other markets. As a Hong Kong tex tile manufacturer says: "We know we cannot just flood the world, but we do think we should be entitled to a fair share of the annual growth...
...added operational costs will not be added to the student board rate for the academic year 1977-78, Fox said in the report. "We hope to absorb the added costs through further economies in the food service system," he said yesterday...
...been employed for years. After learning that mass layoffs are going to cost him and hundreds of his mates their jobs, he kills a supervisor and then himself. The lesson that there are no such things as safe niches in the modern world is too bitter for him to absorb...