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...want to be accused of dog-badgering or pet abuse. But if I hear one more cute tale about Milly the First Dog and her pups, I think I might rent some hungry Dobermans and teach those mutts a thing or two about survival of the fittest...
PROFESSOR MOSCHITTA is best at using examples to bring theory home to students. He illustrates survival of the fittest with the evolution of tougher puff balls; he shows supply and demand with the "boom or bust beet/brussel sprout market...
...Reaganism has now and then been perceived as social Darwinism, the idea that the sleekest beast with the sharpest teeth is the fittest to survive (Ivan Boesky in the skin of a panther), the new emphasis, among Republicans as well as Democrats, is upon the practice of a kind of governmental "tough love," an aggressive compassion designed to end dependencies and get people self-sufficient and back to work as quickly as possible. In the 1980s there is ^ an acute awareness of the nation's economic limits and of the intractability of many problems...
...other, since language naturally adapts to new environments and conditions. If people find it easier to make themselves understood by saying something in a slightly new fashion, such innovation will survive depending on its effectiveness and usefulness. Thus we see the application of the survival of the fittest theory to language. Changes in language that tend to obfuscate are generally the products of governments and their instruments, precisely the institutions Gerber would have institutionalize his linguistic "improvements...
...lesson that we should learn from the last decade of economic dislocation in the industrial North is not the Reaganism of "survival of the fittest." Instead, we should have learned that the whole country has a responsibility to ease the painful process of industrial/regional economic adjustment. The same economic process which left thousands unemployed in the auto and steel industries is now affecting workers in the oil states. Our response to this regional depression shouldn't be joyful declarations of "Christmas in April," but a concerted governmental effort to minimize the short-term impact of falling oil prices--through programs...