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...said about a 21-year-old who died?" Like John Neumann, Ru Selle was an idealist of powerful commitments who found it difficult to reconcile her enthusiasms with the world she saw around her. In high school, she was devoted to her church and in college most generous to her friends. The quotation from Ru Selle which was chosen to appear on the program of the memorial service was "The right things have been said before, but not enough have listened...
Each company is graded on five criteria: pay, benefits, job security, chance to move up and ambience. Goldman Sachs, an investment banker, is one of the best-paying companies. It has a generous profit-sharing plan, and last year gave many employees a year-end bonus of 25% of their salaries. IBM offers such benefits as free physical examinations for those over 35, dental insurance, adoption assistance (up to $1,000) and two country clubs that employees can join for $5 a year. Hewlett-Packard provides free coffee and doughnuts twice a day and sometimes throws informal beer busts...
...with racism. The same majority has been trying to use UNESCO to muzzle the press through proposed programs such as the licensing of reporters and the establishing of a code of conduct for journalists. Western nations have also accused UNESCO's bloated bureaucracy of preferring the comforts and generous tax-free salaries of Paris to the rigors of the underdeveloped nations they profess to serve...
...modern book based on the integrity of a humble and skeptical view of the natural world and of the human beings in it. It gives no support to prejudice in favor of the superiority of human beings or of one sex over another. It does celebrate a child's generous view of the world and a child's love of that world...
WINDMILLS. California's coastal mountain passes contain 65 sprawling, power-producing windmill "farms," most of which are the result of the past decade's search for alternatives to oil. They are heavily financed by private investors, who .get generous tax benefits from the state and federal governments-no matter that the price of oil has fallen or that power from windmills is vastly more expensive than that from other types of energy plants. Moreover, while most of the wind devices do produce electricity, all of them generate tax benefits of some sort even when they do not produce...