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...Curse of Monopolies. The system of state participation in enterprise allows the government and privileged bureaucracy to spread itself in such a way as to handicap and alter an economic dynamism otherwise capable of increasing production and absorbing the ever-growing labor market. These companies and the state monopolies acquire such credit and fiscal privileges that they can, at will, kill any private competition. It is the state−that is, the community−which bears the almost constant losses...
...guide it through the General Court. Aware of how little he can do in two years, he must start his second term electioneering right away. This makes great demands on his time and energy, especially in a state as closely contested as Massachusetts. The two-year term is a handicap to the voter as well. Too often election time finds most of the governor's program still incomplete, leaving the public without sufficient evidence to make a thoughtful choice...
...Each year strokes (accidents in the brain's arteries) handicap 1,800,000 U.S. victims and take 170,000 lives, but medical science is neglecting "this tremendous problem," concluded 35 specialists assembled by the American Heart Association. At their conference in Princeton, N.J., the specialists said, more questions were asked than answered...
...would appear that after taht avalanche had occurred, and Playsko had miraculously escaped without being buried, the handicap of his inexperience immediately became apparent. In descending the mountain for help he passed by no less than three emergency telephones, two first aid caches containing blankets and chemical heat pads, and the Tuckerman Ravine ski Shelter which, although unoccupied at the present time, is available for climbers in distress. The final irony of fate is that he dies just a few yards beyond the Spur Cabin of the Harvard Mountaineering Club where people were staying at that time...
October: Under heavy criticism over the new parietal rules, the Housemasters will reveal that Ivy League parietal rules are not made individually, but based on a handicap system. Handicaps are determined by a committee located in Princeton, New Jersey. Therefore, the shrinkage in hours, the Housemasters will explain, were actually an added handicap put on Harvard men because of their superiority over Yale and Princeton in matters of virility...