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...last week, holes were being knocked in the fair-trade fence all around the lot. In New Jersey, the state supreme court handed down a decision that merchants who had not signed such agreements could disregard them. Fair-trade lobbyists said the decision was meaningless because it applied to injunctions which had been issued prior to the new 1952 federal law. Some Jersey merchants thought otherwise. The big chain of Kings Super Markets (20 stores) immediately started cutting fair-traded prices...
...seem to disregard entirely the chief difference between the present system and the former. Instead of writing papers exclusively, or almost exclusively, for a separate course in composition, the Freshman now divides his writing between a composition course and his other courses. The aim is to establish a closer relation than existed previously between a student's writing and the subject matter of his general courses. The merits of this policy may perhaps be debated, but your position is ambiguous. You criticize General Education A on the ground that the papers are generally unrelated to the rest of the student...
...only violates the principles and spirit of student elections and his own integrity, but he is also committing a flagrant violation of those definite rules which were set up by the Council. These rules were published in the Union, and made clear to all candidates. If such disregard of rules is to be allowed, it will not only affect the present election but also set a precedent for future ones and thereby weaken the authority and prestige of the Council...
...after all, not Davies. who was at that time head of the Policy Planning Staff. I was responsible for its work and its recommendations . . . Do you not mislead your readers when you encourage them to disregard the clear hierarchy of governmental responsibility and to seek in the alleged "influence" of junior officials the explanation for whatever is found displeasing in the workings of public policy? Must all reverses be attributable to sinister intrigue? Is it not possible that most of them might be the result of normal factors in the operation of a governmental system?-of faultiness in even...
...network at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, so that it could catch all children ... It's frightening to see these five-and six-year-old tots sitting spellbound before TV sets, soaking up this sadism. It is the height of irresponsibility for a network to so callously disregard the well being of children...