Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonders consistently about his own failings: "The critics who found me callow might be right: I had been lucky and, as the lucky will do, had become hard-hearted." But this book betrays no coldness, only the wry detachment of someone trying to tell the truth about himself while being simultaneously "aware of a possible cliff-high vantage from which my self-solicitous life was negligible...
...each week so they make a smoothly readable magazine. TIME's advertising staff immediately told Japanese advertisers that they were free, if they wished, to cancel ads in that issue as a mark of deference. Several Japanese companies did so, leaving three blank pages. Within hours Quiggle rejuggled the book, as it is called, into a successful new combination. "Every week brings a unique set of problems," she says. "The trick is to solve them quickly...
...balanced a pile of tape transcripts and letters he had carried out of Greece as evidence. From time to time he ran his finger across the * pages of his old appointment book, picking out entries of meetings with the Prime Minister and other key government officials...
...maybe there are some things money just shouldn't be allowed to buy, sensibly or otherwise. Socialist philosopher Michael Walzer added flesh to this ancient skeleton of sentiment in his 1983 book, Spheres of Justice. Walzer argued that a just society is not necessarily one with complete financial equality -- a hopeless and even destructive goal -- but one in which the influence of money is not allowed to dominate all aspects of life. By outlawing organ sales, you are indeed keeping the insidious influence of money from leaching into a new sphere and are thereby reducing the power of the rich...
...grim trade in living people's kidneys would not be necessary if more people would voluntarily offer their kidneys (and other organs) when they die. Another socialist philosopher, Richard Titmuss, wrote a famous book two decades ago called The Gift Relationship, extolling the virtues of donated blood over purchased blood and, by extension, the superiority of sharing over commerce. Whatever you may think of Titmuss's larger point, the appeal of the blood-donor system as a small testament to our shared humanity is undeniable. Perhaps we should do more to encourage organ donation at death for the same reason...