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...mortified to be a member of that white race, lest I be mistaken for the ignorant, vicious, crooked angry white that unfortunately is in the majority in the country...
...Lest any budget-pinched shopper follow that lead, he had best be advised that a diet of canned, all-meat dog food is overly rich for humans, just as it is for dogs, and can lead to diarrhea, bloating and bad breath. But leavened with cereal-based dog food, it might even surpass in nutrients the diets of snack-happy American teenagers. One of the Oklahoma students' tastier recipes, for instance, calls for two cups of Gaines Gravy Train, heated with water, salt, pepper and garlic. That provides much more protein and vitamin A and B1 than does...
...Germany, for example, plants worked at 93% of capacity in 1970. Not so long ago, many governments would have reduced demand by such traditional deflationary methods as curbing their own spending, raising the cost of credit and restricting its growth. Today they are fearful of using those weapons vigorously, lest they create unemployment. Says Raymond Barre, a former vice president of the Common Market Commission: "Most people have decided they prefer inflation to joblessness...
...Lest skeptics complain that such analyses are the product of overactive imaginations, Sinologists relate a revealing vignette from President Nixon's visit to Peking. After the banquet in the Great Hall of the People, Premier Chou En-lai went off to a corner. There he was shown the People's Daily front-page layout of pictures of the Nixon trip. That historic issue went to press only after Chou-the world's most famous part-time editor-approved...
...coffee with men, you go to meetings with men, but you never spend any time with women. You don't know anything about women! And that's the problem!" Thus an angry law student recently berated University of Michigan President Robben Fleming. Lest Fleming miss the point, a woman representing the "Ad Hoc Committee Concerned That President Fleming Does Not Meet with Women" sat outside the president's office for a week, earnestly recording the sex and other vital statistics of his predominantly male visitors...