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...kind of task. I'm a little surprised and much more disappointed then to see him condone the present course of events: the development of new technologies to find natural resources, including new sources of fuel; more new technology to control the dissipation of heat; and the input into "backward areas" of "that minimal infrastructure needed to support a modern system of health services, education, transportation, fertilizer production and the like," so as to prevent international disruption. The number of international incidents can be kept down, but it won't mean that many third world peoples aren't suffering while...
...price reached $18.25 in 1970 but then skidded to a paltry $3 or so in 1973, even though earnings, at 86? a share, were at a near record. The company offered $6.70 to buy back shares. Other companies that have taken the same backward step include Ad Press, a New York printing house with sales of $7.5 million a year, that went public at $15 a share in 1969 and paid $3 a share to buy back stock that had slipped to $2.25 in the market by 1973; and Houston-based Diversified Design Disciplines, Inc., an architectural and engineering firm...
...evils of socialism," one finds none other than the Ivy League's (well, Yale's) William Graham Sumner, who probably did as much to push positivistic social science at the expense of religion and the classics as anyone in the history of American education. Considering this contrast, how backward does the religious approach look...
...primarily handled or primarily kicked? Some said handled, and so evolved rugby football. Rugby has become the main game for other public schools. There the sons of gentlemen, who will never have to soil their hands in mine or factory, knock hell out of each other passing the ball backward. Americans, in their own padded and armored version of the game, pass the ball forward. This has always been taken by the British as typical American perverseness, like icing drinks and signing a Declaration of Independence...
Officials blame much of the epidemic on the primitive conditions in Bihar. The state, which has a population of more than 60 million, is one of India's most backward. Ninety percent of its people live in villages that are little more than clusters of one-room mud huts. The people are largely illiterate, and some are afraid to report the disease for fear they will be socially ostracized and deprived of their jobs. "Some of these people would sooner travel 100 miles to a temple of Shitala to pray to her to spare their children than report...