Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fault in the communications system. The HAL computers cannot make mistakes and a confirmation of the error would necessitate disconnection. At this point the balance shifts again: Bowman asks HAL to explain his mistake and HAL denies it, attributing it to "human error"; we are reminded of the maxim, "a bad workman blames his tools," and realize HAL is acting from a distinctly human point-of-view in trying to cover up his error...
...nonetheless reject as much as they borrow from the grand guru of gyration. Not that she minds. "I am particularly pleased," she says, "that there are no replicas of me in the field. Everyone should be doing something else, meeting their own challenge." In other words, echoing the hippie maxim, do your own thing. That they have-and their disparate styles might well be summed up as Tuned-in, Turned-On, Dropped-Out and Flipped...
...balance of payments deficit, Johnson has set his sights on the big spenders. His major proposals: 1) a tax, effective May 1, on expenditures by travelers abroad of more than $10 a day, which is scarcely enough to pay for the sauce béarnaise on the tournedos at Maxim's; 2) a 5% tax on ship and air fares to the Eastern Hemisphere; and 3) cuts in the $100 customs duty allowance for goods purchased abroad, and abolition of exemptions for gifts costing less than...
...conspicuous figure during the closed-door trial. Not allowed inside the courtroom, he talked outside with foreign correspondents and signed a statement branding the proceeding a "wild mockery." He has managed to avoid arrest so far only because he is the grandson of the late Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, and thus the scion of an old Bolshevik family. "I am definitely not a revolutionary, but neither am I an organization man," he says. "I must do what my heart tells me." Still uncowed after his dismissal, Litvinov announced that he would fight to get his job back by appealing...
...real evil of conspiracy is that it is a vehicle used by the prosecutor to get in evidence that he could not otherwise possibly get in." Some legal scholars agree. Yale Law Professor Abraham Goldstein says: "It threatens the whole fair-trial notion." And, he adds, it crowds the maxim of Anglo-Saxon law that a man cannot be punished for evil intent alone...