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...tough money questions. She criticized, however, the "undercurrent of unnecessary hostility between the two houses" in trying to agree on budget limits, and the hostility between Congress and the Executive Branch. The bureaucrats in the Executive Branch, she said, tend to consider Congress "a bunch of dopes" who cannot comprehend budget matters, while Congress figures that the administrators "will just mess it up" if kept informed about what the Legislative Branch wants to do to the budget. Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, pointedly wondered how many Congressmen voted for the budget limitation-they ruled that...
...fine actor as well. He takes open, youthful joy in being onstage, while respecting what he calls "the sensitive weave" of the work's overall design. His Albrecht in Giselle, for example, is a coltish kid in love with the idea of love, touchingly unable to comprehend that, as a nobleman, he just cannot have this terrific peasant girl. He excels at shrewd, straightforward comedy. In Frederick Ashton's Les Patineurs, the dancers appear to be on ice skates. Misha seems about to fall over backward at times-a mime performance that Marcel Marceau might envy. Perhaps...
...most simplistic level, it is difficult to comprehend how such segregation will promote increased integration of freshmen for sophomores) into the University as a whole, a goal articulated repeatedly by such persons as Dean K. Whitla. On the contrary, I feel that such a plan would only exacerbate the problems which already exist in the all-freshman Yard as presently constituted...
...Woburn meeting with her husband John. "It sets out to make people face their deepest feelings about the contract that they made on their wedding day - and it succeeds. When they discover that they can trust each other even with their fears, the couples seem suddenly to comprehend the meaning of love." Indeed, the process is so popular that on a typical weekend, 115 Encounters are in operation in the U.S. The majority, including the Woburn meeting, are under the aegis of "Worldwide" Marriage Encounter, headquartered in St. Louis, which has a national program budget of around $1 million. Including...
...continued to spread beyond the Defense Department to other government agencies and nonprofit institutions. As a result, even the critics must acknowledge that key policymakers should be acquainted with these methods if only to appreciate their pitfalls and avoid becoming captive to elaborate staff studies which they cannot adequately comprehend...