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...pipelines has apparently had little negative impact on the environment, partly because the pipeline companies have gone out of their way to avoid criticism from ecological watchdogs. For example, to protect the prairie habitat of the rarely seen black-footed ferret, Northern Border engineers enforced a 15-mile "construction constraint" along one stretch of the line in the Dakotas in order to loop around certain prairie-dog towns, which the ferrets raid for prey. The company also held up work in several other sections for two weeks to avoid interfering with the nesting habits of prairie falcons...
...less given than were students ten or 15 years ago to believing that change can come about or freedom through singular and absolute acts of transformation. They are more inclined to see many individual and even modest acts and institutions as sources of change. They see a world of constraint rather than of growth, of trade-offs rather than of clear choices. Today's students are not, in my view, hostile to the ideals of liberal education, but they are not always given much encouragement by their circumstances or by the larger society to take liberal education...
...that it investigate and reprimand Mr. Edward Pattullo for his published views on homosexuality. It was a disservice to the cause of free speech at this great institution for the GSA to claim that Mr. Pattullo's official role as directory of the Center for Behavioral Sciences constituted a constraint, de jure, on his freedom of speech. The GSA has only one legitimate recourse against Mr. Pattullo's views on homosexuality--to debate them, but not to prevent them. I do not myself share Mr. Pattullo's views on homosexuality, but I am certain the GSA is mistaken...
...prevalence of material and military factors; the aged leader was exhausted by the exactions of a pitiless system. Doubtless, no more than any other Soviet leader would Brezhnev resist a chance to alter the power balance; nothing can relieve us of the imperative of preparedness. But within that constraint, some leaders, driven by the impossibility of suppressing human aspiration forever, may emerge who seek true coexistence. The West's policy must encompass simultaneously the two antiphonal trends of Soviet policy: resistance to expansionism and receptivity to a change of course in Moscow...
Hoffman said the 1969 staff worked under another pressing constraint: "We rushed it to press because we were afraid the Vietnam War would be over before it came...