Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...management will remedy these evils for: 1. It is more economical-Harper 73, Jeans p. 460. 2. It will stop speculation and mitigate crises. 2. It will prevent discrimination. 4. It will do away with private monopoly. 5. It will decrease accidents-eans p. 461. 6. It will stop bad and varying legislation...
...Conditions much less favorable for success of government management in a Republic. (a) Difficulty of detecting bad management. Impossibility for the public at large to do so.- Hadley, Railroad Transportation, pp. 57-60. (b) Legitimate differences in charges would not be submitted to under government ownership in a republic. Cheap transportation to a great extent dependent on such differences-Hadley, Railroad Transportation, p. 112. (c) Certain to be degradation of railroad offices into rewards for party service-Hudson, The Railways and the Republic, p. 327; Spofford, The Railroad Question...
...these laws, which were mere matters of management, would not have gained the victory of the Republicans if the situation had not changed during the campaign. At the be ringing Boulanger was very popular, but he made two bad mistakes. One was his going to England, the other his running for councilor general. Besides these mistakes the republicans had sent strangers throughout France telling the peasants the true situation of affairs. The peruses - as well as political faults of Boutanger were shown so distinctly to the people that they lost all their respect for him. This was the real cause...
...moment where no material fault lies; and college men most of all, perhaps, are prone to demand more than is their due. It certainly will not be amiss if the present system be allowed a little more time in which to show its good points as well as its bad ones...
...case of bad weather, high wind, darkness, or similar reasons, the umpire may at any time postpone the trial; and, furthermore, the umpire is instructed to select the best weather and to have the conditions as nearly alike as possible. It is therefore recommended to name an early date for the first trial...