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...that Columbia can't beat Brown, it's just that the Red Sea can only open so many times for the same team each season, and it appears that Harvard has already used up its quota...
...Anything is alright between consenting adults, so to speak, from abortion to free enterprise, including union contracts and hiring 12-year olds. Unlike the American Party, the Libertarians demand a strict enforcement of civil rights and liberties, since its philosophy calls for equal opportunity--but not reverse discrimination or quota systems, which is why it calls for passage of the ERA but an end to affirmative action programs. While the Libertarians and their candidate for president, George McBride, call for more alternative educational institutions and a gradual phasing out of government in education, they also call--unlike their mentor, Mill...
...tutor. It was, in fact, a particularly intemperate evening, as his former roommate explained the following day, since Dave had not only one more hour than usual to indulge, but also had the inviting free drinks at the party. Then, after leaving the party, he filled his nightly $5 quota of drinks at the Casablanca. This $5 generally goes toward the drinks he puts away between 10 and 3 at night, but that's without taking any free liquor into consideration. Tonight Dave has gone...
...whether investments are productive or misguided, whether the products are competitive and appealing-judging performance without reference to profits is like watching a baseball game where nobody bothers to count runs. Again, the Soviet experience has demonstrated the efficacy of profits. For years a Soviet factory manager fulfilled his quota under the central plan by turning out a certain amount of goods regardless of expense or popular demand. But now, in order to improve quality and control costs, most Soviet-bloc countries have set up managerial systems that rely heavily on profits -though they are called, of course, by other...
...final week of the Montreal Olympics will inevitably add its quota of such human errata to the history of the Games. But the main text will be provided by the track and field athletes performing in the $700 million concrete stadium that hovers over the Olympic Park like the fossil of some monstrous crustacean. And immediately the absence of Black Africa's runners was felt. In the first day of track heats, New Zealand's John Walker, the world's fastest miler, failed even to qualify for the 800-meter semifinals. This was only a tune...