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Burke's list of radical doubts about American social science has been expanded by my colleagues Samuel Bowles and Arthur MacEwan (The CRIMSON, October 27). Such criticism is typically posed in terms of suspicions as to the extent that traditional views and institutions may inhibit discussion and research directed toward social change...
...same time, they have long wielded enough power to inhibit rivals from venture investment in Italy. The Italian stock market is controlled by about 20 financial companies of such interwoven ownership that their directors answer mainly to themselves. So few investors care for these conditions that the total value of shares traded on the Milan stock exchange in a year barely equals that traded on the New York Stock Exchange in a week. Worse, the system has begun to bleed Italy of funds that the country needs at home. During the first six months of this year, some $1.5 billion...
...long a light mist fell on Warsaw, forcing a cancellation of a flyover by Polish air force jet fighters. The bad weather did not, however, inhibit the inevitable big parade. Down the broad Marzalkowska Street rumbled row after row of Soviet-made T-54 and T-55 tanks, followed by self-propelled artillery and mobile missiles. Next came squads of young Polish athletes marching in tight formations that spelled the Roman numerals XXV. The occasion was the 25th anniversary of the establishment of Poland's Communist government...
...institutions and authority do not always inhibit people, but are rather "instruments for human advance. . .the very gurantors of continued high civilization and of human freedom...
...cities to pool their separate, federally subsidized projects into large-scale "mass markets." The Secretary hopes to attract giant corporations into housing construction and to wring economies from volume production. Localities would have to remove building codes, zoning and other barriers that fragment today's housing market, inhibit innovations and raise prices...