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...paragraph preceding the excerpt in question reads as follows: "In an absent-minded way the United States in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to 'wars of national liberation.' The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
...THAT excerpt from a job seeker's letter points up one of the nation's most perplexing problems as it de-emphasizes the role of defense spending. Deep cutbacks in military and space expenditures are throwing onto the labor market a corps of highly educated and experienced men and women. To their dismay, these individuals are learning that being overskilled-or too narrowly skilled-can be almost as bad as being undereducated or underskilled. The elite jobless, many of them middle-aged men with families, must try to convince skeptical employers that their mastery of such subjects...
...other record is an album with a hefty price tag ($4.98), The Best of Marcel Marceao-teasingly close to the spelling of the name of the famed French pantomimist. A typical excerpt goes something like this...
Morris knew. He brought a Texas friend, Larry King, to the magazine, lured Pulitzer Prizewinner David Halberstam away from the New York Times, and persuaded his friend and fellow Southerner William Styron to run a 35,000-word excerpt from The Confessions of Nat Turner in Harper's at a fee several times smaller than he could have got elsewhere. But his official declaration of independence came when he signed Norman Mailer to recount his experiences at a Washington peace march...
...martial tone, that quotation is not an excerpt from the maxims of Chairman Mao or Che Guevara's advice to guerrillas. It is a sample from the conventional wisdom of A Checklist for Plant Security, a 16-page pamphlet published by the National Association of Manufacturers and distributed to 250,000 businessmen. Its militant, military style is a direct response to the disturbing fact that U.S. business is now under siege-the target of a multipronged assault by forces ranging from outside political protesters to embezzling employees...