Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...danger of poltical and ethnic militancy to a great university is that they distort the quality of those delicate relationships and sensibilities that sustain a great university. Indeed, those who adopt militancy as a style of behavior within a university do so precisely because they, for whatever reasons, no longer comprehend the behavioral requisites of a great university. Thus for them a new raison d'etre becomes imperative: the logic of militant confrontation runs its civility-destroying course...
According to those interviewed, the University's subsidization of the Fly Club garden-backyard has continued for 19 years because of Harvard's failure to adopt a short-term use of the land after it scrapped its 1956 building plans. As one administrator put it earlier this month, the Fly's exclusive access reflects not a policy for such land, but "just an evolution...
...Postal Rate Commission rejected Wenner's proposals, it came up with other recommendations, among them one that would raise the second-class rates so crucial to publishers and their readers by 42% over the next four years. That new increase, which the Postal Service is expected to adopt this week, comes on top of other second-class rate rises totaling 127% since 1971. While the latest jump is far less than the 122% proposed by Wenner, the increase-not to mention others that are certain to come along between now and 1980-poses an economic threat to many magazines...
...became apparent that the Japanese who cling to their traditional lifestyles, which defuse tension by emphasizing acceptance of the individual's place in both family and society, fare well. Even those who indulge in high-fat diets suffer fewer coronaries than their American counterparts. But those who adopt the aggressive, competitive and impatient traits of most Americans increasingly succumb to the strain. The study found that Japanese who made a moderate transition to Western ways suffered 2½ times as many heart attacks as those who continued to live like their forebears. Those who plunged most fully into...
What Banfield is subtly arguing for is a new kind of rugged individualism. If the lower class is to follow the good path of middle-classification, its members must work hard and forego the sex and action of the streets. They must adopt the Protestant work ethic and not squander their meager pay checks on liquor or drugs. But where is the lower class person to get the job that will give him the chance to put the nose to the grindstone? Only through eliminating minimum wage laws does Banfield say these jobs will be forthcoming...