Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detail, the vast majority of the discrepancies will be "negotiated away." Meanwhile, in the Office of Research Contracts on the third floor of Holyok Center, professors continue to apply for federal grants. Of the 100-odd pages in the handbook the Office gives to prospective grantees, a little less than half a page is devoted to discussing audits. Bu the end of the year--when the office sits down to revise the booklet--the section may be just a little longer...
Several women and men said the decline was just fine with them, that lower fertility would lower the possibility of unwanted pregnancies. One Wigglesworth freshman woman said, "The lower the better. It doesn't mean that men's libido is down. It's just less chance of trouble...
Once at Jari, Ludwig ignores the successful projects to concentrate on problem areas. Like a conceptual architect who carries the blueprints in his mind, he supervises new undertakings down to the most minute detail. Yet he is becoming less dictatorial. The present project chief, John Trescot Jr., 54, an ace cost cutter who has been on the job for six months, claims that he can actually argue with him over decisions. Ludwig is beginning to accept a substantial dilution of his authority. He has created an eight-man committee that exercises an overall policymaking role. Also, Ludwig has willed Jari...
...less happily, is the simple moral that runs through almost all of his work. As Starbuck puts it, "We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one." Yet Vonnegut does not believe that people are capable of doing so, at least not in a way that will make them happy. This leads to the static quality of his books: nothing much ever changes except to get a little worse. Some of the evidence Vonnegut offers is rigged: Starbuck comes to believe that wisdom does not exist and hence can not be used to improve...
Boggs says that the person who objects to federal aid on the grounds that Chrysler has not made enough sacrifices or because the company bears much of the blame for its own downfall "is a much less difficult problem than someone who has a philosophical objection" to a federal bail-out of a particular company. "We'll just show them the consequences to the government if it doesn't choose to help Chrysler," he said...