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...organizing principle instead of electronegativity. Questions of what is good for us may therefore be put safely aside. The physicist does not worry about what is good for the atoms; neither should the task of the economist be to determine what's good for people, but rather, what laws govern their economic behavior...
...leaders who turned out a heavy vote for him, if he wishes. The first big contract, for 37,000 oil, chemical and atomic workers, expires two weeks before Carter takes office. Next comes textiles. Steel follows, but that is expected to be peaceful; an experimental no-strike agreement will govern negotiations. In December comes potential trouble: coal and railroads. United Mine Workers negotiators are already talking up wage increases...
...Luis Echeverria as Mexico's President 14 months ago, José López Portillo has broken with that tradition. Even though he carried out a grueling 40,600-mile campaign from the oilfields and swamps of Tabasco to the high sierra, "Don Pepe" has promised only to govern by the "laws of the country." His suitably vague campaign slogan: "La solución somos todos-The solution...
Masterly Campaign. The results stunned the entire country. From Ottawa, Pierre Elliott Trudeau-a Quebecker and a bitter enemy of separatism -immediately appeared on nationwide television, grimly asserting that "Mr. Lévesque and his party have been granted a mandate to form a government in the province, not to separate that province from the rest of the country. I can only assume the Parti Québécois will govern while respecting the letter and spirit of the Canadian constitution...
Wilson said last week that "rehabilitation cannot be a replacement for punishment." The convicted criminal must be punished under "clear and legal boundaries," and rehabilitation is only an optional concomitant to punishment. "But," he writes, "the prospects for rehabilitation should not be allowed to govern the length of sentence." Implicit in this argument is the belief that the criminal, like a dog at an obedience school, can be disciplined but not corrected. After all, he adds, "behavior is easier to change than attitudes...