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Despite repeated assurances that the President wants a prompt, thorough investigation, the White House has fought blatantly and with marked success to drag out Watergate, to stall the impeachment process by every possible means. Nixon's lawyers last week maneuvered in court to slow the case and kept stonewalling against the House Judiciary Committee's request for more evidence, to which it is entitled under the Constitution. The committee's impeachment timetable continued to slip badly...
...moment of truth. All frightened people will then avoid the moment of truth entirely, or evade or postpone it until the last possible moment." To Georgia State Psychologist Joen Pagan, however, procrastination may be a kind of subliminal way of sorting the important from the trivial. "When I drag my feet, there's usually some reason," says Fagan. "I feel it, but I don't yet know the real reason...
...Chevy is only one of four show and racing cars Jackson owns. "I've loved tinkering with cars since I was a kid," he says. His pride at the moment is a 1927 Ford roadster that holds the world record for quarter-mile drag racing in its class. Whenever he gets the chance, Jackson climbs behind the wheel of the gleaming yellow speedster for a few unofficial runs...
Quality of Work. The biggest drag on overall productivity advances is not in manufacturing but in the service field, which employs more than 60% of the nation's workers and is hard to automate. Simply measuring-much less improving-the productivity of policemen, pilots, teachers or symphony conductors is far tougher than assessing the output of an assembly-line worker. Even so, adept use of computers has raised productivity in such fields as medicine and sales management...
...MOTHER and the Whore can be seen as a very reactionary film that condemns contraception, abortion, and the dissolution of traditional values in general. Director Jean Eustache may intend to drag us through a murky decadence that has lost touch with even a sense of style until all it has left is ennui, automatic sex and hyper-self-consciousness. According to this view, the burden of the film is carried by the long, emotional monologue of a woman named Veronika (Francois Lebrun) who tells us that "the only time sex isn't sordid is when two people want to have...