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Except for protesters who simply want to destroy-and there are more than a few-most dissenters turn to violence in a desperate effort to communicate their profound feelings of grievance. Yet surely this is too crude a way to get their message across. A bomb, for example, lacks specificity; its meaning is as scattered as its debris. Some people may interpret such an act as a signal to pay more attention to the protester and his cause; many more are likely to read into it a need to make life a lot tougher for the protester. Violence is, essentially...
...doing it without lowering graduation standards in the process. Brewster has also long held views that Agnew could applaud, such as his concern that "physical disruption and intimidation from the New Left" pose a "frontal challenge" to universities, and that "reason must be honored above the clash of crude and noisy enthusiasms and antipathies." He has argued that "the teacher who holds no convictions is a neuter," but "the teacher who sees his classroom as an opportunity for missionary indoctrination is an outrage...
...permafrost, the line might sag into the slush and finally break, spilling oil that could do great harm because it would last for years. Moreover, the line's route would cross earthquake zones. Since each mile of pipe would have a capacity of 100,000 barrels of crude, any break in the line could have disastrous consequences...
...Shell group is second in the world oil industry (after Jersey Standard) and the largest industrial enterprise of any kind outside the U.S., it has never been as skillful-or as lucky-at finding oil as some of its rivals. It must buy a high 19% of its crude from other companies. Once a serious weakness, that need is also a source of strength since it forces Shell to rely for growth on marketing instead of production...
Each day Shell moves well over 5,000,000 bbl. of oil from wells to refineries and chemical plants, turning the crude into a bewildering range of products that are marketed in more than 100 countries. Last week Shell had bracing news for stockholders at annual meetings held concurrently in London and The Hague. In 1969, when many another oil company was scissored by rising costs and falling profits, Shell's earnings rose 7.9%, to $1 billion, while sales climbed only 5.7%, to $9.7 billion. This success resulted from Shell's determined attention to market research and from...