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Accordingly, Nakauchi pioneered in bringing the American-style supermarket to Japan in 1957. He is opening four new stores this month and plans another nine by year's end, mostly in Japan's mushrooming suburban areas - following Mao's precept to "take small and medium cities first, take big cities later." Defying pressure from Japan's protectionist agricultural bureaucrats, who have burdened him with red tape, Nakauchi imports the cheapest foreign food that he can find: cattle and onions from Australia, oranges and grapefruit from the U.S. He has turned his retail outlets into small department...
Morale and Outrage. No one made that point better than Calley's prosecutor, Captain Aubrey Daniel III, who wrote President Nixon an indignantly eloquent letter that belongs among the classic defenses of the precept that the U.S. must be a Government of laws, not of men (see box). Calley's lawyer, George Latimer, naturally found Daniel's views "entirely wrong," and added: "I believe the President was exactly right in what he did." The President dealt only indirectly with the Calley case in his TV address. He said he felt he should "speak...
...have subjected a judicial system of this country to the criticism that it is subject to political influence, when it is a fundamental precept of our judicial system that the legal processes of this country must be kept free from any outside influences. What will be the impact of your decision upon the future trials, particularly those within the military...
...court did not order integration, the conscious mixing of the races in schools. Its ruling was negative: that legally sanctioned, or de jure segregation, which then prevailed throughout the South, is unlawful. All the court's subsequent rulings in the 16 years since have consistently followed this precept of "againstness" rather than "forness." Thus in 1955 the Supreme Court ordered the Southern and Border states to proceed "with all deliberate speed" to eliminate dual school systems. In 1966 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed "freedom of choice" plans, but only as a means toward ending segregated school systems...
...experience," he says. As for his own role, he adds: "all one can hope to do is move things in the direction they ought to go. I try to be specific about the ideal and not worry too much about what at the moment is realistic." By following that precept, Milton Friedman has done much to revive faith in the competitive market and to change the theories by which nations guide their commercial destinies...