Word: doned
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Efficiency. Of the two, Nixon is by far the better organizer and administrator. He has given serious thought to making government perform more efficiently. He would be likely to insist on high performance by subordinates, just as he has done to excellent effect with his campaign organization. Humphrey has pointed out a number of times that the Bible is unconcerned with efficiency but deeply involved with compassion. On the day-to-day operating level, Humphrey could be expected to concern himself with more trivia than Nixon, to spread himself thinner, to put up with more intramural disorder...
...result has certainly been confusing. In New York, McCarthy joined a successful lawsuit to have his name removed from the ballot, thus preserving Humphrey's slim chance to win the state's 43 electoral votes. Yet, in campaigning for antiwar congression?! candidates in California, McCarthy has done nothing to discourage a massive write-in vote for himself. In California, this could cost Humphrey 400,000 popular votes and throw the state's 40 electoral votes to Nixon...
...force scheduled for duty, reported "sick" each day with a fictitious strain of Asian flu. Cops on duty watched benignly as motorists left their cars in bus stops and no-parking zones. Minor complaints were simply ignored, and traffic became badly snarled. Possibly worst of all was the damage done to the conception of law and order, as "New York's Finest" sneered at laws they were sworn to enforce...
...cutting through other tangles that choke his city, Lindsay has done better than just about anyone else could have. Not always appreciated in New York-or in Nelson Rockefeller's Albany-he is generally regarded in Washington offices that handle urban programs as the best big-city mayor in the country...
...thought we were doing something that had to be done to help these people rejoin people they were attached to," Miss Blueye said. Later she realized "it was very improper--the wrong thing to do," she said...