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...Commission contends that the surplus of college graduates are an national asset." College students "are no worse off occupationally--and often may be better off in some ways--for having gone to college...
Outgoing. To overcome that sadness, the management seems relentlessly determined to ensure that everyone is cheerfully with it. There is much jargon about the "dynamics of member interaction." What kind of interactors? "We want an outgoing, social person," says Membership Coordinator Robing Raderman. "Someone who will be an asset." Activities Director David Malachowski says: "We were going to require members to take at least one seminar [at $10 a session], but since our yoga and group-encounter classes are already oversubscribed, we have done away with compulsion." Malachowski plans to organize "a lot of outdoor sleeping activity-back to nature...
...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...
...cast's credit that no other single character obtrudes beyond the delicate and tasteful interaction of the company. They transform a fundamental lack of character deliniation in the script into an asset, allowing their parts to grow naturally with on another. The best in Brock Patrick Walsh, a strong young David, whose fine singing adds much to his role. Paul Fitzgerald achieves a good sense of comraderie as his friend Nathan, and Michael Brewer possesses all the gruffness, wisdom and maturity of a prophet...
...chief asset of Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. is a steel artery about two feet in diameter that winds through six Western states bringing natural gas to eleven million consumers. El Paso Natural Gas Co., which has the nation's largest reserves of that fuel, acquired Pacific Northwest and its strategic pipeline in 1957, and El Paso executives have been fighting in court ever since to hang on to their purchase. Last week they reached the end of the line: the Supreme Court ordered El Paso to get rid of Pacific Northwest...