Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concept behind seatbelts also bugs me. You're falling to earth from 30,000 feet and you expect a seatbelt to save your life? The only good thing that they do is make it easier for the rescue people to find your body. "Yup, there he is, 27A, sucker had his seatbelt on." If it's going to be your last chance to piss someone off, you might as well spread your body all over the place...
Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel and Harvard's chief labor negotiator, said that working with outside firms makes it easier to get jobs done...
...mixed. Those who got fired are understandably bitter, and most of this group blame Harvard for valuing money over principle. Some go so far as to suggest the University could have improved efficiency without contracting to ISS, but did not want to face the responsibility and found it easier to delegate the termination employees. No one, neither University administrators nor union rank and file, denies and Scott's official dual emphasis on efficiency and fairness is skewed toward monetary concerns...
...councils of the Reagan Administration made reference to the danger of "another Viet Nam." Indeed, this danger existed, if Reagan repeated the errors of the past and resorted to incrementalism. To start small, to show hesitation, to localize our response was to Vietnamize the situation. If it is easier to escalate step by small step, it is easier for an adversary to respond to each step with a response that is strong enough to compel yet another escalation on our part. That is the lesson of Viet Nam. If an objective is worth pursuing, then it must be pursued with...
Naturally, I would have preferred that the hearing be held under quieter circumstances. I don't mind being questioned, hectored even, but it is discomfiting to have to answer sharply in full view of the world. It is easier to administer humiliation in public than to accept it. Besides, a circus atmosphere elicits the clown in all of us. It is difficult, when on camera, not to play to the gallery. This cheapens the process, distorts the results, and causes otherwise thoughtful persons to make damn fools of themselves...