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...assistant to the President. "He has dealt with the problems of the wounded with both compassion and detachment." In contrast to the closed-door policy of Haldeman, Haig has made the White House more accessible and a more pleasant place in which to work; there is at least a modicum of grace under ferocious pressure. "It's fun to deal with Al," notes a White House aide who is otherwise not enjoying himself much. "You don't get very far knee jerking with him. He's got a helluva sense of humor, which he uses to break...
With a 20-point, 15-rebound performance guaranteed from Ron Haigler every night, and the best of Philadelphia's b-ball intelligentsia, the Quakers require only a modicum of coaching genius to sweep the league...
...European Common Market to establish a new and restructured Atlantic alliance. Internal bickering among the European Nine was largely responsible for the failure to bring Europe and the U.S. closer. Now the scramble for bilateral oil deals caused by the energy crisis threatens to destroy the modicum of unity that the Europeans have struggled to achieve since World War II. TIME'S chief European correspondent, William Rademaekers, reports...
...companies to boost production of these scarce items. As a result, prices for these products have shot up, in some cases by 50% or more. But in freeing the carmakers, COLC Chief John Dunlop was reverting to an earlier policy goal: permitting higher prices now in exchange for a modicum of price stability in the future. Unwelcome as the auto price increases may be to new-car shoppers, they amounted to considerably less than what some of the automakers had sought...
...critics. People, I note, vary in mental capacity. The variation is partly genetic, partly environmental. In addition, people obviously achieve different degrees of success (as society defines it, in terms of status, income, admiration, etc.) in their lives. Moreover, success often appears to demand at least a modicum of mental capacity. Consequently, the status differences among people will also be to a degree genetic. Finally, it follows that the more equally society distributes wholesome surroundings, education, and opportunities for social advancement, the more will social status depend on genetic differences, for the environmental differences will then have been minimized...