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...contrast, Jackson also has listened to Kenneth J. Arrow, a Harvard professor and co-winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics. Arrow last year signed a declaration condemning capitalism for producing "primarily for corporate profit" and calling for a search for alternatives to prevailing Western economic systems...
...pointing at the screen, on which two objects are rotating about a dot. "You can change your orbit by firing your engines, like this." Blips emerge from the back of one satellite and it starts to describe an ellipse. "Then you have torpedoes." He turns his spaceship, fires an arrow-shaped blip and the other ship disappears. Space War has an infinity of variations. "There is always the final escape--you can send yourself into Hyperspace." Arny's ship disappears in a flash of light. "But you don't know if you'll come back", he adds...
...Governor, traveled to an inner principality called Borgu and succeeded in getting two treaties signed in favor of the British Royal Niger Company. As he returned there was a brief skirmish. Lugard reported with the stiffest possible upper lip: "The only casualty in the fighting line was myself, an arrow having penetrated deep into my skull." When he got home, he sustained another grievous wound: the signatures on the treaties were fake...
Malek's clipped, matter-of-fact insistence that Watergate didn't effect him or his outlook much reflects the Malek of dossier number two: an arch-typical straight arrow who sped up an upwardly mobile path in the military and in business, and found that political realities cramped his style and ultimately dragged him down into a quagmire he says he didn't see forming...
...Arrow spoke on "Why Profits Are Challenged." "The strongest argument for profits has always been they are needed as an incentive," Arrow said. He added that "profits may not be the motive of the economic system today," as management is not in the hands of profit recipients...