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...year, improved transportation and communication led to increased contact with the city, and the peasants became less and less willing to live, as their ancestors did, on a bare subsistence diet of corn and dried potatoes. Whole communities picked up and moved to La Paz, where they managed to construct a roof over their heads, but, for a long time, little more. Life in the Indian district of the city is a resurrection of the ancient customs of the small villages of the altiplano. Without this sprawling marketplace to serve as both an economic and social center, the migrating peasants...
...American society. None of the protesters would seriously try to deny the existence of organized crime. What they object to is its characterization. The federal government, newspapers, and most organized crime watchers have viewed "the Mafia" as a formally organized bureaucratic structure with the ability to design and construct rational, highly efficient programs for amassing illicit wealth. Individuals are not really important to the organization's success, in this view. It is the structure, and not people, that give the Mafia its self-perpetuating character...
...Shortening the time that it takes to license and construct nuclear power plants, from the present average of nine years to about six years...
...recommend this. We suggested a much more modest proposal for a northern-New England, small center in cooperation with a new Federal Bureau of Prisons unit which would include many other programs. The reason for suggesting this in the north is because New Hampshire and Vermont are moving to construct new maximum security facilities to replace their old, obsolete prisons. This new program could be a vast improvement over current conditions and would deal only with selected violent offenders, not for all "troublemakers" of all kinds. A useful model suggested in the report for this approach we found...
...more glib and polished--but whether or not they will be remembered depends on the long-run verdict on the free, civilized form of marriage these two proper Britons pioneered. Whether they did so as a last fling of aristocratic contempt for convention or as a conscious attempt to construct a new set of rules for marriage doesn't matter much. They were brave enough to stake their feelings on their solution, and to leave the rest--ironically enough--to their children...