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...strike had an indirect impact on the large percentage of Detroit's working population that is employed in jobs directly related to auto production. When the strike began September 14, Chrysler directed its suppliers to curb shipments of steel, tires and parts. As a result, the Budd Company, a Detroit-based supplier, laid off 250 of its 2500 employees...
...everyday germs in periods of stress, when he may be sleeping poorly and working too hard. Thus it is most unlikely that Nixon's illness provides any psychosomatic insights into his feelings about Watergate-but quite possible that his first bout with illness since becoming President is the indirect result of that unhappy affair...
...abhor the atrocities which Portugal is perpetrating on the Angolans, how can we condone corporate support of the Portuguese on the ground that European oil companies will pick up where we leave off? There will always be some one willing to make money through direct or indirect participation in criminal activity. We had hoped that Harvard had the moral integrity to restrain itself from certain sources of income. We conceded to Mr. Calkins that all sources of income were open to moral questioning, but we reminded him that there are extremes; that if we cannot distinguish between morally outrageous...
...indirect consequences of Masters' prerogatives are far more serious. As long as the tutorial staff is a source of personal patronage for the Master, as long as Masters tend to appoint tutors in their own fields rather than the fields of most interest to students, as long as tutorships remain a way of feeding and housing poor graduate students who catch the Master's sympathy, the Houses will be considerably less than an ideal. Every year students witness some unjustifiable tutorial appointments, and the only explanation for them is petty corruption...
...total energy output, only about 4% of the gross national product is required to pay the bill. Nixon has proposed that energy prices "reflect their true cost" -which increasingly includes ransom-sized tax increases by the oil barons of the Middle East, environmental cleanup expenditures and other indirect expenses that U.S. consumers are hardly accustomed to having tacked onto their electric bills or service-station tabs. "The days of cheap energy are definitely behind us," Robert Dunlop, chairman of Sun Oil Co., told the Nassau conference...