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...prospect is for more and more massive demonstrations against the war. However, if they merely replay the romantic and potentially tragic script of the march on the Pentagon, they will impair not only the cause they hope to represent, but the cherished American tradition of dissent as well. "The whole thing ended so meanly," Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz said almost sadly before the Yale Political Union. "There must be a great many people who feel they were discredited by a few who distorted dissent into obscenity...
...pride. Spaniards have never forgotten that in the 16th century even stable hands wore swords and boasted family shields. They are convinced, he says, that they are the equal of any man, even if they happen to be shining his shoes. No government, not even a dictatorship, can impair their basic dignity, which often reaches the point of anarchy, because "the Spaniard always adapts the laws to his personality and never the other way around." Diaz-Plaja, in fact, sees his countrymen's pride as so overbearing that, for all its wit and insight, his book might have been...
Setting the Limit. Campbell points out that the A.M.A. has concluded that, "A blood alcohol concentration of .05% will definitely impair the driving ability of some individuals. At a concentration of .10%, all individuals are definitely impaired." The recommended statutory limit "defies common sense," writes Campbell, by being set at a level where even a chronic alcoholic's driving ability is seriously hampered...
...swallow the bait, the battle is generally lost then and there; the only soft part of a swordfish, naturally, is his mouth. More often he is foul-hooked-in the dorsal fin, back or cheek-as he rolls around, batting the bait. But a foul hookup does nothing to impair his fighting ability...
According to Schelling, the Center has been willing to accept grants or contracts from any agency in the American government that is willing to meet the demands of the University and the Center. This policy rules out security-classified contracts or unclassified contract that impair the Center's standards or its right to publish. The Center has added another restriction: it will research for the government "only to the extent that the research interests of the Center and of the government coincide...