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...Black children under age 18 were living below the poverty line Black leaders and intellectuals typically blame the continued existence of racial discrimination for the high rate of Black poverty. Yet given the fact that poverty appears to be on the increase in recent years, racism as a causal explanation simply fails Certainly racism did not increase so drastically over the past decade such that the Black unemployment rate would rise from 10.3 percent in 1972 to 18.9 percent in 1982 or such that the Black teenage unemployment rate would rise from about 28 percent in 1972 to 48 percent...
...coalition of dietary product manufacturers who prevented the proposed ban on saccharin in 1977 with a massive ad campaign aimed a diet-drink fanatics, and the Council on Tobacco Research, a group to which five of the six principal cigarette manufacturers belong, which still denies the well-established causal lationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. These coalitions attempt toe refute self-incriminating data about their products under he guise of "unbiased" health councils. Countless other similar "scientific" cancer research centers are supported solely by industrial funds, and churn out reports which seem intended only to clear their own names...
...comment was more than just a causal reaction. Emersed in the heat of the battle, Boyum's innermost feelings came to the surface when he blurted them out. The sophomore didn't say how badly he wanted to beat Zaff, he didn't say how much he would have like to have made the shot he had just missed. He didn't even berate himself for paying lousy, as so many of us do in competition. Instead, he said how much...
...nonacademic realm: a university must protect its vested interests for the sake of academic freedom. Thus he focuses on method instead of effect; thus he strives to make detached cost-benefit analyses; thus his motives and his morals are in the end utilitarian. But there is no organic, causal connection between interests and ideals--unless one is rationalized...
...bases his transactions on the I-Chungn is an example of this. Then comes the subtle level, which is an intensification of transcendence. At this level, the individual can begin to see the end of the tunnel, the golden road to unlimited devotion. At the last stage, the causal level, the individual becomes the end of the road. He is at one with the universe. He is a unity with nature. Nothing passes...