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...stint is completed. The writing of a Skinner work is the culmination of years of behavioral preparation. Skinner takes copious notes on many of his thoughts and actions and then files them in his extensive record system, a system that functions' almost as an alternate mind. He rotates the ink color for these notes annually, as an aid to the process of remembering the minutiae for later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carrots and Sticks | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

Getting the experts to describe the "crisis" often seems like asking them to analyze a Rorschach ink blot: each responds in terms of his own specialty. Most economists feel that the problem is not one of supply but of price-the cost of getting oil and gas to market. Specialists in international finance say that price as such is less important than the fact that consuming countries cannot keep handing over more and more money to the OPEC cartel members without imperiling global financial stability. By year's end the import bill for the U.S. alone will total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Yes, There Is An Energy Crisis | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...while broken vertebrae and muddy multi-flexes have grabbed the ink of the first two football weeks. Tuke's been latching on to opposing ankles and legs, and in last week's rainy loss to UMass he came up with his first interception of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John's 'Adjusting' Fine, Thank You | 10/1/1977 | See Source »

...access to intimate financial dealings disturbs many people,* but it made James M. Blackley, 30, president of the Charlotte, N.C., Libertarian Society, see red-literally-and then think green. Learning that ordinary microfilm is unable to distinguish between certain shades of red and other colors, including blue and black ink, Blackley decided to start printing checks on red paper. When the checks were made out, the ink would be perfectly visible against the rosy-hued ground. But when the draft was microfilmed, he figured, it would become a blank; anything written or printed would disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Banking On Privacy | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...optimist might think that Rosovsky's black ink hints of an end to rising tuition, room and board fees, but it's probably wiser to take a more cynical view. Although officials predict the rate of increases will slow down, no one sees an end to the yearly price hikes...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Temporary Relief | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

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