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...justified its outright denial of all parts of this appeal with a paradigmatic example of that Jeremy Bentham, in a different context, called "nonsense on stilts." As for Cox's assertion that the CRR's procedures denied a full hearing, the Committee readily agreed-but instead of finding this grounds for sustaining his appeal, the Committee used it as an excuse to apologize. I quote from the CRR's reply...
...members of Mr. Bryce's subcommittee I can only question their competence to evaluate PBH. The report and Mr. Bryce's comments contain serious inaccuracies and almost complete misunderstanding of our finances, and an argument that moves forward largely (though assuredly unintentionally) through implicit criticisms, undocumented assertions, and outright condescension...
...returned steel and trucking to government ownership. Before the Conservatives took over last June, nationalized industries had grown and diversified into a group that has $25 billion in assets and accounts for 11% of Britain's gross domestic product. In addition to the enterprises the government owns outright, there are others-like British Petroleum and BOAC-that are 51% or 49% government-owned...
...theatre today. His talent is wide-ranging, from Beyond the Fringe to Shakespeare, and his work normally receives an enthusiastic response. His present production of Hamlet, which leaves this country tomorrow, has been an exception, receiving absolutely no good notices, and being met in many places with outright hostilities...
...would have been right 10% of the time. As it turned out, the men who had managed to double their corporate profits in the past five years had an average score of 12.3%-substantially above the average. Meanwhile, the executives whose companies had reported relatively low profit gains or outright deficits scored only 8.3% on the guessing test...