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...effects by reducing the number of pregnancies that lead to hasty and ill-considered marriages, and by allowing couples to put off having children until they are older and have had time to enjoy themselves, to travel and to grow up themselves. The reduction in unwanted pregnancies will also lessen the number of children who are rejected even before they are born and the financial hardship brought on by unplanned large families...
...Fenton a victory tomorrow against Yale would lessen the sorrows connected with playing his last game. He has never played on a team that has beaten Yale, he felt insulted by the lowly rating that Harvard received from pre-season prognosticators. and he's anxious to prove himself equal to the pressure generated by the status of tomorrow's game...
Since Chairman Gardner Cowles will join the Times's board of directors and the company itself will acquire a 23% interest in the Times, the influx of cash and prestige to Cowles Communications should also lessen dissidence from stockholders in his own company. A contented group of stockholders should mean a more powerful Gardner Cowles, who will be able to focus his attention on the languishing Look...
...that life should be devoted to renouncing the endless contradictions and passions of self which interfere with maintaining a consciousness of God. Jean-Louis rejects this doctrine, first on the grounds that it's bad probability ("a lottery"), and secondly that accepting certain worldly pleasures (within reason) doesn't lessen his religious faith. He lives by a sort of operational dialectic, using the science of probability to calculate his freedom within the limits of determined facts, and using moral transgressions, i.e., sex (also within limits) to better his sense of judgment ("women always raise my moral standards...
Paul McCracken, President Nixon's chief economic adviser, recently remarked that waiting for solid evidence that proves price increases are slowing "has been frustrating enough to provide material for another chapter in the Book of Job." His frustration has finally begun to lessen. The Labor Department reported last week that consumer prices rose in August at an annual rate of 2.4%-the smallest seasonally adjusted increase in three years. Nearly all the rise came in services; food and private transportation prices actually declined...