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...cheating more prevalent than ever at the nation's 3,055 colleges and universities? There is no annual tabulation to prove it, just a feeling among many administrators. Some cite America's moral climate as a fundamental reason for the phenomenon. Laments Suskind: "Watergate and its general milieu, American preoccupation with material goods, decreasing family values-they are all part of the problem. There is a morality problem in the external world and it's hard to wall off the university...
...taint of wheeling and dealing that has made the Japanese public increasingly cynical about its leaders in general. He played on this theme last week at his press conference by accusing the party bosses of dictatorially trying to control events through an agreement among themselves. That may prove to be a persuasive point with the public. A recent poll conducted by the Kyodo News Service indicated that only 12% of the Japanese people thought Miki should step down, while 64% felt he should remain in office until the fall...
...much of this is crap. It's changed my life. My father walked out on my mother right after I was born. She kept telling me men-people-were unreliable. I see now that I screwed up my marriage, all my love affairs, all my jobs, just to prove that my mother was right. It's all bullshit and I'm not going to do it any more." One of the men says he can't get over the feeling that est is a gigantic fraud. A dapper fellow with a mustache says coolly that nothing...
...margin. A large majority of the vote would be required to capture the bulk of the 280 delegates under the state party's proportional and balkanized selection rules. Lingering feelings that the freshman Governor needs more experience and that he has neglected the Sacramento store could prove to be minor difficulties. Frank Church, and even Scoop Jackson, may siphon off a few delegates...
...hoped for came about. Now he is trying to close the circle in a different way. The Poverty of Power is a closely reasoned, adult primer on energy, examined in relation to several laws of science and economics. First are the laws of thermodynamics, which he uses to prove that fully 85% of the work potential in the nation's oil, coal and uranium is wasted. Commoner shows how the environment is harmed by the industries that use the most energy-petrochemicals, transportation, agriculture. Finally, the economy is affected too. Because the nation's fuels are irreplaceable resources...