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Sardonic "gusts of laughter" shake the goddess' sides, says Graves, when she sees the havoc that has prevailed ever since "the restless and arbitrary male will" usurped "the female sense of orderliness" and loosed upon civilization the sort of ruthless character typified by "Alexander, Pompey and Napoleon...
...face of a 20% cut or even more. Currently, the aircraft industry's sales are dropping from 1954's $8 billion to a maintenance level of between $6 billion and $7 billion a year. That is a downward adjustment of about 20% and no one is crying havoc. In Los Angeles, where almost 25% of the work force is in aircraft production, the Southern California Research Council estimated two years ago that if defense orders were cut back 25% in 1955, unemployment in the area would rise to no more than 6% of the insured work force; assuming...
...Primary School Inspector of Paris reported that the nation's teacher and classroom shortage is raising havoc with the French school system: three out of ten pupils in preparatory courses, four out of ten pupils in second-year elementary courses, nearly half (46%) of all nine-to-eleven-year-olds, and up to 75% of those in their final elementary school classes, are at least a year behind their age groups...
Those who sided with the President thought that the uncertainty about U.S. intentions was a lesser evil than the havoc an announcement would create in both strategy and politics. If the President announced his decision, the Communists would have a definite line behind which they would have sanctuary. If the President said that the U.S. will defend the islands, he would immediately be denounced as a warmonger; if he announced the opposite, he would be called an appeaser...
...professors soon grew accustomed to reading blue-book after blue-book with the same questions answered in the same way. Finally faculty members began to take the law into their own hands and one professor emerged from his examination room and announced with satisfaction that his test had "wreaked havoc among cram parlor habituees...