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...trying to broaden our services to sell all kinds of new things," a highly-placed HSA official said. He acknowledged the profit motive, but insisted there were other considerations in the decision. "Yes, it is to make a fast buck," he said, but added that "we are providing a service...
...strategies. The differences had grown with the organization, which was started six years before to protest the escalation in Vietnam. The leadership--concerned that the war was not over but sharing the feeling that its end was linked to the end of other government abuses--was now anxious to broaden its concerns to domestic shortcomings, and to develop a more systematic critique of American foreign policy. They found themselves caught in the middle, between those who felt that ending the war should retain the highest priority and those who felt, in fact, that an end to the war would make...
...surprising choice because United had always developed its top management from within. Gwinn explained that he was 64 and President Arthur Smith was 60-both approaching the "normal" retirement age of 65. (Smith will now become chairman of the executive committee.) Then Gwinn added: "Someone from the outside could broaden our thinking and fuse...
...courtmartial, "We are presenting evidence at this time of a limited nature on one specific act of which Lieutenant Calley is charged. How is it relevant to bring in acts of misconduct by other people?" When this objection was overruled, he darkly warned. "The defense is going to broaden this whole thing. They want to bring in the acts of others, acts committed in different places, acts committed at different times, acts of a different nature, acts committed by different people...
Zindel's exploration of a deep, narrow shaft of his life recalls Henry David Thoreau's rejoinder to those who urged he broaden his perspective through travel: "I have traveled a good deal in Concord." Zindel says rightly that despite the psychologically crippled characters and lacerating tensions in Marigolds, it is an affirmation of life-the experimenting schoolgirl endures literally and symbolically, despite the emotional violence around her. Like her, Zindel has transcended his experience. Thoreau eventually went as far as Minnesota. For Zindel, Manhattan may be far enough; it is the inner distance that counts...