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...dealing directly with important friends. A phone call is often all that is needed. During the Truman era, James V. Hunt was able to do wonders for aspiring Government contractors by calling his friend General Harry Vaughan, Truman's military aide. Though no evidence of a direct payoff was uncovered, Vaughan did receive a freezer from one of Hunt's clients, and the Democratic Party was the recipient of numerous gifts. A few years later, Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine gave a vicuna coat to Sherman Adams, Eisenhower's chief White House aide, who intervened for Goldfine with...
...Supreme Court refused to hear the case, it looked as if the Yale professor's crusade was finished. As a last resort, he decided to see whether Caron would furnish any more clues to the real identity of his contact under hypnosis. The session provided an unexpected payoff. Before Caron went into a trance, he confided that Government prosecutors had also interrogated him under hypnosis just before Miller's trial...
...increase in importance--such as for example, factual and quantifiable date. In the choice of pare topics, preference is given to small questions which can be easily researched and for which a complete answer can be developed in the limited time available. In order to assure a short-run payoff, the student tends to minimize risk by restricting his field of inquiry. As a result, the larger framework and context of his studies is taken for grated. Thus grades play a significant role in the perpetuation of the status quo in social inquiry. To this we object...
Risk Is the Key. No matter how high they rise, the hired employees of corporations rarely earn as much as owners, partners or other entrepreneurs, who get a payoff for personal risk. Apart from top management, lawyers are the best-rewarded corporate employees, averaging about $29,000 in high legal-department positions. But lawyers in private practice have no ceilings, and incomes of $50,000 for younger partners in leading firms are fairly common...
...grades perpetuate the status quo in social inquiry by encouraging students to research subjects which are most likely to assure "a short-term payoff...