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...this great land of ours, and high profits are necessary to continue to build this land. New sources of oil cost a bundle to find, and the machinery to get it out of the ground costs even more. Unless our profits are increased still further, we simply won't bother to increase oil production. Why should we, when we can make more money importing high-priced OPEC oil, or buying up small diaper and car rental companies...
...strife afflicting southern Africa, the little republic is something of an oddity. It is a place where a benign and popular government reigns over a modest society that is notably free of corruption, has never fought a war with its neighbors, never held a political prisoner, and does not bother to arm its police. Its currency is stable and its economy remarkably robust. It has a multiparty parliamentary system and is preparing to hold its fourth general election since it attained independence from Britain in 1966. The country is Botswana, and its state of health is all the more remarkable...
...month later after a nine-year-old girl was raped with a beer bottle on a San Francisco beach and her parents filed suit against the company for inciting the crime. Cowan's explanation of "the apparent nexus between television and antisocial conduct" is too shallow-- he doesn't bother to talk about the psychological (and more interesting) aspects, choosing instead to get lost in the legalese of Congressional reports. Later, he quotes a writer who wanted to pen the teleplay for an episode of The FBI about the 1965 bombing of a black church in Birmingham, Ala. He asked...
...violence? Don't bother to read this book. Watch television instead...
...resolutions and ballots appear in the corporation's proxy statement mailed to all the shareholders. Resolutions which the management does not support are almost always defeated by substantial majorities, because many, if not most, shareholders do not bother to vote at all. Abstentions are counted as votes with management...