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...ADOPT ADAPT ADEPT" the Japanese corporate motto has always unnerved to Americans have never learned to accepted the utilization on our technological advance by an economic rival as flattery. Japan's ability to take American research developments, make modifications to stuff industrial needs, and surpass or at least match the U.S. in expertise, long ago forced us to resign ourselves to the existence of high tech the existence of high-tech thievery. The crimes in the common opinion, were always committed in some miserable corner of Silicon Valley where only spies and the most devoted scientists dared tread. It follows...
...artificial blood monopoly serves as a reminder to the U.S. that generousity may be rewarded in the hereafter but never will it advance our economic status. "Adopt, adapt, adept," may cause a shrug, but another saying should make us shudder. "Nice guys finish last...
...other action last night, the council voted to adopt a report by vice chairman Brian R. Melendez '86 on heckling and freedom of speech. The report urged the college to shift jurisdiction on these matters from the inactive Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), created in 1970, to the Administrative Board, and to allow students to participate in Ad Board discussions on free speech cases...
...council also refused to adopt a proposal urging the College to institute a '70-30 system for the freshman housing lottery which would have 70 percent of students as signed in the current manner and 30 percent randomly...
...buoyant era for newspapers: by publishing the Pentagon papers and exposing the Watergate scandal, they had recaptured the role as journalism's leader, which TV had assumed during the Viet Nam War. They had shown a new zeal for investigating local corruption. And they had begun to adopt technologies to achieve crisp graphics and photos; a growing number were using color...