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...independence is too strong to disappear or even diminish significantly when some other President succeeds Carter. This means that it has become more difficult to govern, and it will get even more difficult in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: More Difficult to Govern | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

Although Harvard has established programs to diminish energy waste, there are still shortcomings. And, as they do about any bureaucracy, students sometimes feel a bit skeptical about the whole thihg...

Author: By Susan H. Goldstein, | Title: The Great Chilled Water Bazaar Or Harvard's Energy Labyrinth | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

...they are apt to sell their houses for less than they are worth and complete the self-fulfilling prophecy of declining property values. Others move because they would rather 'live with their own kind. A neighborhood gradually becomes poorer, and the pockets of middle class life amid the poverty diminish in size and number, until another whole section of Brooklyn has deteriorated...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Weed Grows in Brooklyn | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

Coors workers began the strike in April, when the company, which has been a union shop for 42 years, sought to limit seniority rights and diminish the authority of Local 366 of the brewery workers union over its 1,472 members. But the union quickly turned the dispute into an ideological confrontation with Chairman William Coors, 61, and his brother Joseph, 60, a well-known backer of the John Birch Society and other right-wing causes. The union's allies are particularly upset by the firm's practice of using lie-detector tests to probe into the lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bitter Beercott | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

Beckett's poems in French reflect this same style, with a few modifications geared to linguistic subtleties. In any case, if there is a slight stylistic difference, the effect does not diminish the most important thing--the poignant quality we know so well in Beckett's English works. The following poem and its translation were written between the years of 1937 and 1938 after Beckett had made his home in France...

Author: By George G. Scholomite, | Title: Waiting for Beckett | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

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