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...they found other brokers ready to trade Western Union, they left their orders with Boyd and moved on to the next transaction. The system spread, and today there are specialists in all listed issues. Stock markets in Canada and Japan, among other countries, do not have specialists, but the chaotic trading that prevails in those places is evidence that specialists can be valuable...
...maintains that the world's agricultural potential is great enough to feed 157 billion people (v. the world's present population of 3.5 billion). Plainly, the Green Revolution has shown that the battle of food production can indeed be won. But not without its own kind of chaotic upheavals...
Some of the debates were in fact petty. One had only to remember the various mass meetings the Harvard community has tried to hold- or recall meetings of the Harvard Faculty- and it was clear that mass meetings in general are chaotic and full of emotions which afterwards seems out of proportion to the magnitude of the problem being discussed...
Jump in Subsidies. The most controversial item by far in the Administration's 1970 housing bill, the measure would carry the U.S. a step closer to the adoption of a national policy for more rational use of land to control the country's chaotic patterns of growth. The measure not only would empower the Attorney General to file enforcement suits against local governments but also would allow potential recipients of housing aid to sue in either federal or state courts to overturn local rules. Some opponents of the idea contend that Washington lacks authority to override local land...
Though they still remained in firm control of the Faculty structure this year, all that the conservatives feared might happen to the Faculty had happened. The Faculty was: 1) politicized; 2) chaotic; 3) hostile...