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Edgerton and MacAndrew do not deny the physical effects of drink on, say, a man's ability to walk and talk straight. They do argue that these effects are offset by behavior that is "essentially a learned affair." Their moral: "Since societies, like individuals, get the sorts of drunken comportment that they allow, they deserve what they...
...Gainsbrugh of the National Industrial Conference Board believes that inflation is harder to contain now than in the 1950s, partly because service industries and government at all levels employ a much larger share of the nation's work force. That makes it far more difficult for the economy to offset the impact of rising wages by achieving increases in workers' productivity. The output per man-hour of a teacher, fireman or nurse can scarcely be measured, much less increased. The wholesale price index, which does not include the cost of services, has gone up more slowly than the consumer price...
...election day, Yarborough was unable to rally enough of his traditional support to overcome the electorate's disinterest and to offset the votes of Republicans who crossed party lines to vote for Bentsen. Yarborough's East Texas stronghold deserted him, mainly over the Carswell issue. While Yarborough's friends stayed home, his enemies did not. Thus, the Democrats were deprived of their best chance to defeat the G.O.P.'s Bush next fall...
...underground press itself has been a fleeting and sometimes unstable form of communication, as community, high school, black, G.I., hippie, and radical papers are born and die with amazing frequency. New printing methods- notably the "coldtype" use of the offset press- have encouraged the proliferation of what seems to Mrs. Romm to be an unattractively vibrant genre of protest journalism...
There was little question as to the outcome of the meet after Harvard swept the long jump, triple jump, pole vault, and javelin and took the first two places in the high jump. By shutting the Indians out, the Crimson more than offset Dartmouth's expected domination of the throwing events...