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Typical of this relentless breed is Dave Sauer, 39, a refrigeration engineer from Pittsburgh. He began running four years ago to stay in shape, soon became hooked enough to enter local races. Just a year ago he started serious training for the Boston Marathon, dutifully logging ten miles each evening in a park near his home. After sending in his $2 entry fee, Sauer withdrew $300 from his "Boston Marathon fund" and flew east for a long, punishing weekend. "Runners like myself don't expect to win," he said prophetically. "We have the competitive urge, but we run against...
This raises the prospect of a new breed of ambulance chasers, prepared to make quick payoffs to secure organs for ailing clients. Already many people carry cards permitting use of some or all of their organs after death...
...become numbed while others overreact. There will be a split among thinking men, especially devoted thinking men, in a crisis situation. They will often clash head-on because of a common devotion." Arrupe presides over a sometimes chaotic variety of individuals, whose special Jesuit intensity, a quality of the breed, often gives them individualistic interpretations of the society's slogan, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam (To the greater glory of God). Some examples...
...such fundamental changes, "normal" scientists go back to work again, but with a different set of assumptions. Maslow pointed out that it is these "normal" technicians who created the stereotype of scientists as mechanical men with narrow vision. The innovative, imaginative paradigm makers, "the eagles of science," are another breed entirely...
...waning days of Phase II, lumber was often cited as a classic example of how controls breed chaos; under Phase III, it has become a standout illustration of how the loosening of controls can make a bad situation worse. During the period of mandatory controls, lumber prices were supposed to be held close to the relatively low level at which they had been caught by the 1971 price freeze, but as home-building demand soared shortages developed, and loopholes in the Phase II regulations allowed mills to sell the same types of wood at vastly different quotes. Trying...