Word: funds
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...Beyond the danger to fish and birds lies DDT's threat to the whole ecological system. Concentrations of DDT no larger than a few parts per billion in plankton, says Biologist Charles F. Wurster Jr., chief scientific adviser to a New York conservationist group called the Environmental Defense Fund, can substantially hinder the photosynthesis process. On a larger scale, such interference could have a devastating effect, since phytoplankton produces 70% of the earth's oxygen...
...persuaded the university administration to abolish the unpopular food-contract system, which forced his classmates to pay an annual rate covering all meals. As a sophomore, he organized a seminar to study curriculum reform. It was so successful that he was paid $800 from the dean's special fund to spend a summer writing up the seminar's recommendations. Result: the 415-page "Magaziner Report," which Harvard Sociologist David Riesman has called "a herculean effort, an impressive document...
Nonetheless, some scholars concede that a Christian baptism of violence could have tragic implications for American Negroes. The Rev. C. Shelby Rooks, executive director of the Fund for Theological Education at Princeton, unhappily notes: "A drift toward community separation, toward violence, toward the denial of our common brotherhood with white men that the Gospel proclaims." Black militants may attempt to impose the doctrine of violence on their own community, in which case Rooks predicts that "it is highly likely that there may soon be black martyrs at the hands of black people...
...humanitarian ideals, he loomed on the bench as a kind of Old Testament lawgiver, who approached issues with a disarming simplicity. "You'd see this paterfamilias insisting on the justice of the black man's cause," noted Michael Meltsner, a young lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, who has argued before the Warren court. "Almost every question was directed toward justice, not technicalities...
...mergers also includes temptations for arbitrary action. Some businessmen, for example, have suggested that it is not entirely coincidence that one primary target of the trustbusters is James Ling, the conglomerate chief who, whatever his merits or demerits as a businessman, also happens to be a big Democratic fund raiser...