Word: movement
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Propitious Movement. Pressure for some kind of unilateral action will likely surface again, and the President may yet accede to it. The White House already has a secret timetable for a onesided reduction of forces, and Nixon seemed to be heading in that direction when he said: "The time is approaching when South Vietnamese forces will be able to take over some of the fighting fronts now being manned by Americans." The Administration has previously said that three conditions are necessary for a unilateral withdrawal: progress in Paris, a reduced level of fighting, and an improvement in the defensive capabilities...
...rejection of an axiom of classical logic, the principle of identity-that A is A, or a rose is a rose. In fact, argued Korzybski, the basic principle of life is not identity but, as the elliptical pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus put it, that all is change. Time and movement are inexorable, and in the fraction of a second that a rose is described it has already begun to alter...
...community is soon treated as a nuisance; the blindness worker who pursues too seriously the goal of reintegration soon wears out his welcome. There is an unacknowledged desire on the part of the public to avoid contact with blind persons, a covert yet stubborn resistance to any genuine movement of blind people from the agency back into the mainstream of community life." Although such public distaste is deep, Scott says, the agencies have made few educational efforts to change it. He also contends that the agencies tend to restrict their services to those blind people whom the public finds most...
...Hand. In McLaren's view, the great "challenge and opportunity for trustbusters" lies in the area of conglomerate mergers. He charges that his Democratic predecessors, by taking the position that mergers of companies in unrelated businesses were not subject to existing antitrust law, "let the merger movement get clear out of hand." In rapid succession, he has announced actions against three big conglomerates. His trustbusters are contesting Ling-Temco-Vought's takeover of Jones & Laughlin Steel; ITT's acquisition of Canteen Corp. and Northwest Industries' attempt to buy up B. F. Goodrich. Such mergers, McLaren says...
...group is basing the drive on the arguments advanced by the Exam Boycott movement held earlier this term. "Exams are painful and pain should not be a part of learning," the group's spokesman said yesterday...