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...strongly rooted. Certainly you are in a far better position than I to determine this. In the matter of Storm King, I feel Harvard's philosophy is definitely threatened. Certainly there is a demand for more "energy," yet at what cost will we be indulged in our dehumanizing electrical apparatus, our television sets, air conditioners, appliances that make us weak and mechanized? When does it all stop? Or do we say all our hopes on technology? After Storm King goes, what next follows? Is there any way to stop this consumption that as yet hasn't relieved the conditions...
...Office of Management and Budget. Now, Schlesinger not only heads the CIA but also has ultimate responsibility for the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, which provides intelligence for the armed forces, and the National Security Agency, which directs spy planes, satellites and a vast communications-monitoring apparatus that cracks codes and gathers data from other countries...
...still lacking in capital and skill," President Suharto told TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan. "There are bigger projects to be tackled, like the exploitation of liquefied natural gas. That project alone would require $800 million to $900 million. I will try to improve the apparatus for investment, but in the end everything depends on the willingness of U.S. businessmen to invest here...
...first essay in his most recent book, In the Light of History, consisted basically of what he said a year ago. In both he discussed the development of an intellectual apparatus paralleling the developing bourgeoisie that littered the 18th century English countryside. Plumb is currently the foremost historian of the period, and consequently his essays carry a good bit of authority. But it is an authority conveyed in a very light tone. And as the world suffers from no lack of authoritarians, the addition of any easy-mannered tone to its histories has to be counted as an extra asset...
...human nature, as expressed in individual preferences or consciousness, can be treated as independent of the structure of economic activity, is an unfortunate starting point for an economic analysis of worker alienation, sexism or racism. A discipline whose main analytical tool is the concept of equilibrium and whose conceptual apparatus does not admit the notion of power proved to be a misleading guide to the study of inequality or imperialism. A school of thought virtually devoid of tools of dynamic analysis and which takes the institutions of capitalism as given did not even attempt to understand where the advanced capitalist...