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...Specimen Days Walt Whitman created a terrible picture of the proximity of human progress and human frailty by describing the U.S. Patent Office when it was used as a hospital during the Civil War. There the dead and dying soldiers lay on cots surrounded by the latest inventions of the day, high shelves packed with gleaming instruments devised to ensure the world's safety and advancement. India provided some specimen days last week. On Monday the death toll was 410. On Friday, more than 2,500. By the weekend, numbers had no meaning any more, since no one could...
...month slide in oil prices. Texaco announced plans to take a $765 million write-off on its fourth-quarter earnings, partly to reflect the decreased value of several underused refineries and oil tankers. California's Chevron, which merged with Gulf this year, said it may have to lay off some 10,000 workers and sell Gulfs Pittsburgh headquarters...
...Jersey, showed or purported to show that "functional music" in a workplace reduced absenteeism by 88% and early departures by 53%. Other tests produced even richer results. When The Blue Danube was piped into a dairy in McKeesport, Pa., the cows gave more milk; recordings inspired chickens to lay more eggs. The coming of World War II made this more than a matter of money: thousands of U.S. factories, arsenals and shipyards were wired for music and increased production by as much...
...counter-pastoral letter written by a group calling itself the Lay Commission on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy is any indication, then Americans just might not be ready for the radical changes called for by the Bishops. Jointly headed by former Treasury Secretary William E. Simon and Michael Novak of a Washington based think-tank, the lay critics advocated further economic development as the only real basis for greater social justice. The group, composed of notable business leaders and educators like Professor of Government James Q. Wilson, lavished praise on American capitalism, calling it the most effective economic...
...departments in colleges or universities discriminating on grounds of sex should lose federal funds, not the entire instillation. In what many consider to be a stinging below to affirmative action, the Court ruled in Memphis vs. Stotts that seniority look precedence over minority hiring when that city had to lay off some of its firefighters...