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...remarkable feature of Government in the closing decades of the 20th century." While the Federal Government collects taxes with ruthless efficiency, it can no longer move the mails with dispatch; it spends vast sums on welfare, but Sociologist Daniel Moynihan says that it is "highly unreliable" as an instrument for ameliorating the lot of urban Negroes. The multitude of social programs through which it administers welfare funds lack central direction. Drucker believes that the central Government is trying to do too many things that should be left to other organizations functionally better equipped to handle these tasks. He feels that...
...Constitution "has ceased to be an instrument and has become an impediment," says Rexford Guy Tugwell, a survivor of the New Deal's brain trust...
...Using an instrument called the geodimeter, Hofmann aimed a beam of in tense light from a site on one side of a fault at a reflector set up on the other side, between twelve and 20 miles away...
...have a great act, and are very weird people. The group has a drummer, a bass guitar, lead guitar, and a singer, but they produce a complex, brutal, hard sound. People go to their concerts to try to see how they make all those noises with so few instruments. Its hard to describe, but the breaks in their sound awfully formless and abstract, but deep down they consist of just a hard drum beat, a loud bass, and Townshend's amazing chorded rhythm or lead guitar. They use virtually no sophisticated recording tricks. I guess the thing is that they...
...past month, two Allegheny Airline Convair 580 turboprops crashed at the Bradford Regional Airport in northern Pennsylvania. Both were approaching the field in similar snowstorms, using the VOR-DME instrument technique. At FAA urging, Allegheny has just raised the level of minimal weather conditions for VOR-DME approaches to a ceiling of 1,000 ft. and visibility of three miles. As in the other approach cases, the board has not yet established a direct connection between the crash and the instrument system either aboard the plane or on the ground. However, at week's end, the Air Line Pilots...