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WHILE THE authors try to deflect these criticisms, their own position, especially in light of some questionable applications, is not entirely convincing. Thom writes that "our use of local models...implies nothing about the 'ultimate nature of reality'." His catastrophe theory purported not to "explain" phenomena but merely to describe them--a crucial distinction the authors, as well as other proponents, refuse to make. If the mark of a science is both to explain and to predict phenomena, and catastrophe theory often does neither, a re-evaluation of its worth may be in order...
...passage, saying that the industry is "already awash" with profits. The occasionally populist President shows a deep distrust of large oil companies, and they are perfect targets for a bit of demagoguery because much of the public dislikes them too. Carter's verbal overkill is also intended to deflect public fury from the White House when gasoline prices, which are already rising sharply, go up even more as a result of decontrol...
...vast areas of South Africa, including some of our most sensitive installations." Botha's disclosures seemed designed both to embarrass the Carter Administration at a time when the U.S. is pressing South Africa to accept a United Nations plan for the inde pendence of Namibia, and to deflect attention from his scandal-ridden government at home...
Georgia's house of representatives passed a bill to give teachers a 9% raise this year, prompting protests from both Governor George Busbee and White House Inflation Fighter Alfred Kahn. So last week the state senate mounted an effort to deflect the anger but save the increase: it voted a 10% raise bul split the payment in two−a 7% boost beginning next September and 3% in January. Illinois legislators voted themselves both a 25% raise this year (to $25,000) and a further 12% increase for next year. The commissioners on the board of Cook County, which...
...administration's seven-year tenure Harvard has employed a combination of legal expertise and an aggressive and intimidating bargaining style to either deflect or squelch labor discontent. Harvard's experienced legal staff delayed organizing efforts in the Medical Area and at Harvard's teaching hospitals with a long series of court battles. When delaying tactics fail, the University often resorts to subtle intimidation, perfectly legal, of course. In the case of organizing efforts at the teaching hospitals, Harvard filed a lawsuit against the director of the union, accusing him of assault--a charge the judge later threw out of court...