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...answer is elusive because efficiency is one of those relative values that are difficult to pin down. Webster's calls it "effective operation as measured by a comparison of production with cost in energy, time and money." Anyone who attempts to apply that definition can turn up some odd results. Harvard Researcher Ann Carter has been measuring the efficiency of various U.S. industries by gauging the amounts of capital and labor needed to produce a dollar's worth of glass, insurance, hotel service and so on. By these purely statistical standards, efficiency is rising fastest in the telephone and telegraph...
...people were talking animatedly and singing. They seemed to see it as a weekly outing and only a portion of the work that thousands of others in the canefields and in factories were also involved in. There are no financial rewards for this kind of labor, just a colorful pin to wear and the feeling that you are participating in growing your own food and the food that will feed everyone in your country...
Love has always been blind, but that does not appease the Iris Murdoch demon. Her 13 novels, written over 16 years, are cruel choreographies for lovers who must play a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey in which there is no tail and no donkey. The grotesque charade is heightened by the fact that Murdoch's lovers are usually intellectuals, often philosophers or linguists, who can talk their way to "steamy moral altitudes" while betraying others and mortifying themselves...
Tony Rayner kept the Crimson within striking distance with a tie against Ron Lindsay at 190 but with the score standing 18-14, Harvard needed a pin from Abbott to salvage its sixth win of the season...
...Sicilia which serves dimes-pastry with orange and green frosting and coffee. Tony's, nearby, has no menu. Tony just gets up in the morning and makes something. Carmela of Lowell House says: "Tony's particular about boys" styles. If he doesn't like it, he says he'll pin it up on the wall." That's not the only thing Tony doesn't like. If you don't finish what he serves you, he throws it at you. A little girl, maybe his daughter, comes around with pictures of people who don't eat their food...