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...enemy of the nation and of democracy will perish. Once again, we will be the victors: The state, the nation, the society...
...monopoly on all tea exported to the American colonies; only in Boston did discontent manifest itself in violence. Boston's merchant class feared that the monopoly would, according to one patriot, "destroy every branch of our commerce, drain us all of our property, and wantonly leave us to perish by the thousands...
...times 4000 students in the black and Spanish ghetto-neighborhoods of Boston, Cleveland, New York and Chicago who would for certain be effective competition for the men and women who are now enrolled in colleges like this, but who will never have the chance to stand or struggle, perish or prevail, all for no other reason of exclusion but the accident of color, cash and birth. Those, however, who partake of opportunities like these cannot confront the dangerous idea that what they recognize as their participation is someone else's cold and inexplicable exclusion. The scholar trains himself, therefore...
...environmental council chairman, Train was the only Nixon Administration official to press for a national debate on the future of economic growth; he questioned what he called the philosophy of "produce or perish." He has also come to the defense of conservation forces in the national controversy about the energy shortage, declaring that they should not be "the whipping boy." At the same time, though, Train has troubled many environmentalists with his active support for several Administration positions including bills on strip mining, water pollution and the siting of power plants-all of which they consider overly favorable to industry...
...time college coach knows, job security is measured by won-lost records. That produce-or-perish pressure accounts at least in part for the hanky-panky that caused Oklahoma two weeks ago to forfeit nine of last season's football games (TIME, April 30). Last week Steve Owens, a Heisman Trophy winner at O.U. who is now a Detroit Lions running back, suggested that abuses in player recruitment are more common than is generally suspected. Owens revealed that while he was a high school senior in Miami, Okla., one college offered to deliver a $5,000 cash bonus...