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...think the only answer to that question--and it is an imperfect answer--is that we must allocate the unfairness to those who can best afford it," Sullivan added. The city's fiscal crunch is the "perfect example of the folly of relying on property taxes," he added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Property Taxes To Increase $42 | 9/23/1980 | See Source »

Writer, co-author and editor of 18 books, Robinson is professor of economics Emeritus at Cambridge University, where she taught for more than 40 years. Her 1933 classic, Economics of Imperfect Competition, restated the theory of values and is still considered one of the leading works in the field...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Freud, Paz, Rustin Receive Honoraries | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

Some of these dilemmas require something close to squaring the circle. Compromises will be necessary and progress will be imperfect. The lesson of the past, activist decade is that, if capitalist managers do not take social actions voluntarily, unforgiving legislators and regulators will force them to do so, and the consequences will be harsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Capitalism: Is It Working...? Of Course, but... | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...classic Miracles by the late English literary critic C.S. Lewis, the century's most read apologist for God. Lewis dismissed the philosophy that mind results from nature: "If any thought is valid, an eternal, self-existent Reason must exist and must be the source of my own imperfect and intermittent rationality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Modernizing the Case for God | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

There couldn't be a better setting for Ronald Reagan--like the Toga Room, an imperfect relic of a different age. Reagan outlines for the crowd his solution to the Afghanistan crisis--a blockade of the island nation of Cuba, nothing in and nothing out until the Soviets withdraw from the Afghan nation. "All we've been doing is reacting. Why don't we give them something to think about, like Cuba?" he suggests, to cheers. "I think it's time we quit telling the enemy what we won't do, and letting them go to bed at night wondering...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Reagan's Last Chance | 2/16/1980 | See Source »

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