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...price-support programs. The Government supports wheat, cotton and several other major crops at prices so high that it is profitable to grow these crops and turn them over to the Government at the support price. If there were no production controls, then any farmer with enough capital and know-how could grow as much wheat or cotton as he could find land to plant it on, then unload the stuff on the Government. Price supports and controls inevitably go together in agriculture, as they do in other sectors of national life-diminished freedom is the seamy side...
...formed to study the problems of test detection, excluded professional seismologists. They only members of the panel who had any seismological experience were what Leet calls, not derisively but not respectfully, "doodlebuggers,." This is a popular term for seismic prospect seismologists, electronic engineers who use a fraction of the know-how of earthquake seismology. Leet himself is an earthquake station seismologist. His application to work for AFTAC, a unit that presently constitutes the Air Force Vela Uniform test detection project, was turned down on the grounds that Harvard had no instrumentation manufacturing facilities. Leet dismisses this as a "thin...
...There is more to measuring productivity than the one element of output per man-hour. What about the capital invested in more efficient equipment? What about the research which produced better production processes and the know-how which made available higher quality materials? What about the input of management, which directed and contributed to all of this effort...
After two issues, however, it is by no means assured that the National Observer will succeed in its goals. The combination of unattractive layout, overpowering volume, bad writing, and a general lack of journalistic know-how seem ail too likely to repel newsstand browsers. And the National Observer can not count on the patronage of the intellectual upper class; members of the Harvard community, for example, will find upon inspection that very few articles in the first two numbers tell them anything...
...with him. George Nebolsine, a top New York international lawyer, concluded that "the department is not going to be lenient.'' Nebolsine also believes that it may well challenge "such very common business practices as the appointment of exclusive dealers in a foreign country, restrictions under patent and know-how licenses, joint ventures for the production of components or materials, and distribution arrangements...