Word: damns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earning $13,000 a year, and four equally idle coworkers, drank coffee, pondered crossword puzzles and listened to the radio. "Our supervisors were always telling us to look busy," she says. "But there's only so much you can pretend when you haven't got a damn thing...
...based management consulting firm. "The former radicals are an asset to business," he says. "They are aggressive as hell, they're by and large well educated, they have stamina. Business is a rigorous area in which to channel the same kind of energies we had then. And it's damn satisfying to see the results of your work on a balance sheet...
...been advance signs that the ACSR has already ruled out some of the more far-reaching possibilities, like divestiture of stock in offending companies, and it is always possible, though highly doubtful, that it will recommend a socially progressive investment policy to the Corporation. It is too early to damn the ACSR for a decision it has not yet made, but at times it seems to be merely an elaborate charade--a way for the University to continue making the investment decisions it has always made while appearing to be socially responsive...
...been called, are assisting hassled, often incompetent teachers. They are revivifying soporific students, dangling and delivering intellectual challenges beyond the ken of most educators. Says Bradbury: "Millions of buildings' worth of mostly outdated literature and information will be stored on tiny capsules for retrieval when needed. There's too damn much paper around anyway...
DESPITE ALL THE CONCERN and criticism the new president has generated, that investment in faith seems justified after a year. While Carter has not "accomplished" a damn thing in terms of problems actually solved, he has in one short year put every single problem listed above on the national agenda. He proposed a balanced and comprehensive energy plan, a consolidated and simplified program to create jobs and raise income, an urban development plan and some tax reforms (though fewer than he wants). We elected a man much like ourselves--perceptive of the problems but politically naive...