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Does this situation preclude intellectual or artistic curiosity? Of course not. One of my most refreshing discoveries here--one not quantifiable with survey data--has been the huge number of people who occasionally fret about GPAs and job applications but who would much rather discuss their hobbies of studying Eastern philosophy, writing short stories, or playing a mean bass guitar. I also remain deeply respectful of those who single-mindedly struggle toward true expertise in biology, computer science or Chinese. Deserving encouragement, not scorn, for their concentrated labors, these are the people most likely to make the concrete changes...
...pilot of the command ship during Apollo ll's 1969 historic flight to the moon, Astronaut Mike Collins had perhaps less reason than his lunar-walking buddies to fret about the clumsy, complex garments that protected them from the harsh vacuum of space. But some of today's astronauts are seriously worried about just how precarious s space suits can be. In a report as bluntly critical as any issued by NASA since its post-mortem on the disastrous 1967 launch-pad fire that killed three astronauts, the space agency has found alarmingly sloppy oversights...
...reason he feels this way may be his concern about declining standards in film making. "They don't make them any more like we made them then," muses Reagan, looking down on Lake Michigan. "We used to fret a little bit under the strict production code-rules, morality and so forth. It made for great writing. Today they can just turn to obscenities or profanity. The oldest rule is that you can't do anything onstage that's as good as the audience's imagination. Today they don't leave anything to the imagination...
...Federal Reserve has long complained that investors pay too much attention to the Friday-afternoon statistics. It argues that the weekly figures gyrate far too much to be reliable guides to the growth of the money supply. Officials also fret that the wide swings in the numbers, which can rise or fall by billions of dollars in a single week, cause public doubts about the Federal Reserve's ability to control the growth of money...
...longer an upturn is delayed, economists fret, the greater becomes the still small chance that it will turn into something that could be called a depression. One reason is psychological: as bad economic news persists, the word depression moves out of the twilight zone into public discussion, just possibly to the point of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Administration's putdown of depression was prompted in part by a spate of articles in newspapers like the Washington Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Wall Street Journal that have discussed just such a possibility...