Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Original plans include a shaft--but not for hauling out the dirt. Somewhere along the way, however, somebody in the MBTA or the company changed his mind, Lashman said. in fact, one estimate said 90 per cent of the dirt would come out of the hole...
...THAT OF COURSE means Teddy will have to step in. Not that he wants to, mind you--Teddy has told us often enough that he has no intention of running, no selfish desire to rule America as his brothers had. After all, he expects "Jimmy Carter to be nominated, Jimmy Carter to be re-elected." But then again, if Brown beats Carter in a couple of primaries, and has the potential to win the Democratic nomination, well then, Teddy has no obligation to be loyal to Brown, and still less intention to let a Republican win if a multi-candidate...
...neither should we. The ACSR is right--it is "relatively ineffective" to ask companies operating in South Africa if they would mind desegregating their lunchrooms, as per the Sullivan Principles. For one thing, the South African government won't let them do it. For another, a desegregated lunchroom doesn't do away with a vicious migrant labor system which confines hundreds of thousands of black South Africans to miserable shantytowns located at a discreet remove from South Africa's modern cities. Nor does it prevent a regime from charging black South Africans tuition for a sub-standard education while providing...
...standards--pay up and it's all buddy-buddy--but welch, and he'll stop at nothing. He may not break your legs, but then again he'll never rule out the possibility either. It's a deliberate form of mental violence, playing on your paranoia and letting your mind do the rest. And it almost always works...
First, they taught me that life as a French peasant is just as honorable as life as a Wall Street banker. Second, with their cheerfulness and optimism, they taught me that happiness is more a product of a person's mind than of his circumstances...