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...students have continued to think of themselves as the natural focus and outlet for discontent with the regime Betancourt's government has provoked dissatisfaction among those who think that despite progress in education and land reform, it is not doing enough about basic economic problems, such as unemployment. Corruption is alleged in the bureaucracy, and especially in the police, the natural target of student violence...
...distribution for athletic events and recommendations for improvement of the quality and variety of food from the Central Kitchen. Both reports were made after considerable study of the problems involved, and both were acted upon immediately by University departments. More important, the HCUA has established itself as an important outlet for legitimate undergraduate complaints about ticket distribution and the food...
...Krystal admits, some reasons for the market's slump that at first sight appear purely financial. But these realities, he insists, came into play only in a way dictated by the emotional needs of the investors. Many speculators, says Dr. Krystal. use the stock market as an outlet for their aggressive impulses. It is one place where they can make "killings" without conscious guilt. But at the deeper, unconscious level, he argues, the guilt builds up along with the wealth, and every boom must inevitably be followed by its reaction of widespread emotional depression that leads to a "fall...
...nursery-school St. George and launch one of his projectiles with a primordial roar. King Zor is already stirring up controversy among disapproving parents, who claim the toy teaches children combat. Glass disagrees, calls it a game of mechanized tag: "It is better to give a child an outlet for his combative instincts than to suppress them. He feels like a knight fighting a dragon...
...heavy New York financiers who had made a killing by selling short in the Great Crash. Then, to five of Wall Street's biggest "bears," including Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, Weston offered his idea: buy up British bakeries at Depression prices to provide a readymade outlet for Canada's vast supplies of cheap wheat. So convincingly did he argue that the five put up $2,000,000 to back his venture...