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...physicist working in industrial R. and D., I have never seen a genuine, sustained shortage of engineers or scientists in this country. However, I have seen corporate-financed propaganda campaigns with dire predictions of America's coming shortage of high-tech workers and of the need for some drastic government action to increase the supply. The unspoken aim is to create enough of a surplus so that American engineers and scientists will be forced to settle for modest salaries and benefits. DONALD A. RYAN Salinas, California
...This drastic shift in attitudes from my parents' generation to ours stems from the confluence of two factors: the sexual revolution and the subsequent AIDS epidemic. The social scene of my parents' generation (late 1950s to late 1960s) may have been characterized by casual dating, but it also seemed to emphasize the postponement of intimacy, especially sex. Those who were caught up in the counter-culture movement of the late 1960s rebelled against these values, among others. Suddenly, having multiple dates meant having multiple sexual partners. Though other social factors are certainly at work, it's telling that the birth...
...various basket cases--he begins a strict physical and mental regimen in pursuit of some goal at which we can only guess. After an innocent attempt to woo a senator's aide (Cybill Shepherd) and to rescue a teenage prostitute (Jodie Foster) from the streets, Travis resorts to drastic means to make something happen. First stalking the senator, then turning his attention back to the "scum of the streets," Travis moves inexorably towards a destructive climax...
...walks of life mustered up courage to join in. At this point, the way things were going resembled in every sense the famous May 4th Movement in 1919. Ironically, that movement was organized by communists including Mao Zedong to overthrew a corrupt government; it signalled the beginning of a drastic thirty-year-long national struggle...
Levin says some students may have been motivated to take his class because of the Confi review, citing the drastic increase in interest: 375 students attended Levin's first lecture last year, whereas 850 appeared at his second lecture this year...