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...books overlap, you must certainly have
What was said about the influence of the aristocrats and the old members applies equally well to the committee, especially as the two loci of power tend to overlap. In both societies the effectiveness of individual committeemen varies enormously from individual to individual. But it must be conceded that the committee is far more important at the co-op than in the longhouse. The reason for this is that the latter consists of many families, each of which is a unit of production and consumption, while at the co-op house all cooking is done on one hearth and everyone...
...peripheral issues. There is also a pervasive confusion about deadlines and other procedural questions, and the amorphous mandates that Rosovsky offered have immobilized several of the panels. Frozen by uncertainty about the precise boundaries of their jurisdiction, these panels have often deferred to one another in potential areas of overlap--thus narrowing their approach all the more. Finally, the task forces remain uncertain about what kind of recommendations Rosovsky wants and find themselves torn between the abstract and the specific...
Forseeing that seven distinct task forces studying seven artifically divided areas would inevitably result in some overlap, Rosovsky also created a coordinating committee that he chairs. The panel includes all of the task force chairmen, President Bok and Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty. While the monthly meetings of the panel are now intended to prevent individual task forces from "barking up the wrong tree," according to one administrator, ultimately, the committee will attempt to synthesize the task forces' recommendations. Rosovsky stresses that the committee will work by consensus. "It's not a matter...
...pointing pistols at President Gerald Ford. The events took place a mere 80 miles apart in California; in the interim Patty Hearst was also found there, and the Hearsts turned out to have been a part of the second assailant's recent life. It seemed slightly surreal, an overlap of sensations in too narrow a space and time...