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...vital source of this political control is the FBI informer system. "The informer system is subject to the same forms of organization and control as other agencies of the government with which you may be more familiar." Frank Donner told the conference. Donner's thesis--that the extragovernmental informer system is intended as a permanent, organized arm of repression, which has as its aim the management of certain parts of American political life--is supported by the FBI time card displayed by Turner. Each agent, it would seem is assigned a quota of informers to produce, regardless of the magnitude...
...much influence Sullivan is likely to have on G.M. remains to be seen. In recent years the board has been dominated by the views of Retired Chairman Frederic Donner, 68, veteran of a time when the auto was king and major corporations were only timidly criticized. Sullivan says, "I perfectly well realize that I was chosen because I am a black man," but he does not intend to become a monument to corporate tokenism. Blacks account for 14% of G.M.'s employment in the U.S., but own only twelve of the company's 13,600 dealerships...
...this age of instant obsolescence, fashionable slang wears out faster than most commodities. What is very lively in Kansas City today may brand a user as quaint in Manhattan or the Bay Area. It thus becomes periodically necessary, as French Poet Stéphane Mallarmé once suggested, donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu -to purify the dialect of the tribe...
...Girl growling and Stefan sad. Merilee a proper wife holding her tongue. Thinking, " If there's no money, then we'll have no fig trees. Our ancestors crossed the Donner and left Tulsa in their Conestoga wagons to escape just such old-fashioned logical connectors." And if Sam Bollo thought he was the hot shit who could deny her what she had always wanted just through some old cranky Philadelphia logic, then...
...generations, most Americans have regarded tradition as something to be abandoned without much regret-like a too heavy saddlebag on the Donner Pass or a jammed rifle at Shiloh. That a man should live and die in the house where he was born, that he should take up his father's trade as a matter of course-these things have signified stagnation. Change has been our commonplace, our comfort and our proof of progress...