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...court disagreed. Writing for the majority. Justice Byron White called the safety factor "marginal at best," and said it was not enough to outweigh the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. There is, said White, "a 'grave danger' of abuse of discretion." The decision means that police will no longer be able to use such dubious reasons as the length of a driver's hair or the color of his skin to stop a car. In the court's view, wrote White, random checks by policemen are "an unsettling show of authority...
...rebate--were to result in only a 5 per cent decrease in the overall demand for oil it would be well worth the effort since U.S. oil supplies are currently only 2.5 per cent below demand, according to government estimates. The benefits of such a program would seem to outweigh the costs...
Economies like these easily outweigh temporary technical glitches. Wall Street communications analysts, like Winston Himsworth of Salomon Brothers, see a huge market for the new phones. Himsworth envisions the day when PBX systems will transmit programmed information to put through a wake-up call to an employee in the morning, electronically turn on the lights and air conditioner a few minutes before he arrives at work, and lock the office door when he leaves at day's end. Electronic word-processing machines may be hooked onto the phone system, Himsworth figures, allowing an employee to punch out a letter...
...credits for R. and D. spending are another possibility. In addition, even those economists who insist on the importance of reducing federal spending make an exception for R. and D. outlays; their potential benefits far outweigh the costs. Several economists suggest that the Government put up matching funds to spur university research programs into ways to improve productivity of service industries?dry cleaners and restaurants, for example?in which most companies are too small to undertake any significant R. and D. That approach has enormously increased the productivity of farming...
...skirts. Today, though they must still battle prejudice, more and more women are scaling the heights of the profession. One reason: the increasing complexity of figuring out what is really happening on today's business scene has created a demand for trained economists that often makes ability outweigh gender. In short, discrimination is no longer affordable. Equally important, the rising confidence and assertiveness of women is felt in economics as in most other fields...