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...Boyer worries about what will happen when the pennant race tightens in September. Boyer is counting on Brock's steadying hand. "He can motivate a team," says the manager. "He thrives on pressure." Brock frankly declares: "Someone has to light the spark. I've been it. I possess the unique ability...
...drop in hispanic applicants. But Lipsky says recruitment efforts this year may actually have increased the number of "true" hispanics, an increase the statistics mask. Similarly Native American applicants dropped because to qualify as Native American this year an applicant must satisfy National Bureau of Indian Affairs standards and possess a tribal classification. Nevertheless, the decline in Asian American applicants remains a mystery to Lipsky and to Kraus who speculates it is simply "ordinary fluctuation...
...country's deepest moral problems is that Americans now possess - and take the responsibility for - so little of them selves. Government and other specialists have appropriated too much of their lives. Such an individual sense might help to fill the vacuum of national purpose in which Americans have operated for some time. The exclusive pursuit of the good life does not ultimately add up to much of a raison...
...possess your skills, but don't be possessed by them. You are entering a very select group. You have a monopoly on medical care. Please be careful not to abuse this power that you have over the rest...
...reasons: (1) Money paid to Stevens is being used to finance the company's vicious anti-union campaign, while no money is being sent to the Stevens workers or the union. This represents real and active support for Stevens illegality. You argue in your letter that "we do not possess sufficient leverage to move large corporations." A similar excuse is used to downgrade the importance of voting: "Who cares? My vote won't change the results." On that basis could we excuse from moral responsibility those who freelyand knowingly voted for fascism in Germany? Similarly, our purchases are a vote...