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...world has wondered often enough why the British cling to their monarchy. What they get out of it. Why they need it. The British have frequently bestirred themselves to reply, sounding off in essays, epistles to the Times and innumerable speeches, all of which sounded as much like pep talks to the home team as reasoned answers to a curious-and sometimes bemused-off-island audience. As Leonard Mather, 50, a spectator along the processional route, put it: "We haven't got much any more in this country, but we do have our monarchy...
Parker L. Coddington, director of government relations for Harvard, said that despite the potential adverse effects of the tax cuts and spending reductions. Harvard officials must now cling to "one chief hope that the administration program does achieve its ends" in cutting inflation, increasing the Gross National Product, "and building a generally stronger economy, so that there will be money to give to places like Harvard...
Yankelovich, whose firm's political polls appear in TIME, uses opinion research to justify his conclusions about America's shifting attitudes. He finds that only 17% of the population have self-fulfillment as their principal life goal. Slightly more (20%) still cling to traditional values of hard work, family loyalty and sacrifice. The majority (63%) embrace some traditional values but also espouse views that would have been heretical only a generation ago. They are toler ant about abortion, premarital sex, remaining single, and not having children; they are skeptical about the importance of work, feeling that it does...
...think we could come in and steal some of the market share from one of the most powerful newspapers in the country." Throughout Time Inc.'s ownership, the Post was able to hold on to 75% of the city's newspaper advertising. In tight economic times, advertisers cling to the dominant paper. Says Chicago Sun-Times Publisher Jim Hoge, who tried and failed to save that city's evening Daily News: "Once you get deep in the hole, it is almost impossible...
...group of ten-year-olds from a little league team in nearby Sylvania stare at the action and cling to the autographs they have garnered from their heroes. They say they miss pro baseball, and teams like the Dodgers and Reds, but the Mud Hens are their favorites, they...