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...department is necessary--many people seem to feel that being allied with another department gives them a legitimacy. There are many black scholars who have yet to come to terms with the legitimacy of Afro-American Studies as an intellectual discipline," he notes. Benjamin also says that a rapid turnover rate among junior faculty "has a tendency to turn senior people off." But Southern protests against charges of turnover, noting that all junior faculty members hired under her tenure have served or are serving their full terms...
...sense of decay arises also from all of society's smoking frictions of rapid change, the anxiety caused by a sense of impermanence. The nation's creative forces, however, remain remarkably strong - in the sciences, for example, where achievements in physics, mathematics, biology and medicine rank beside anything so far accomplished on the planet. Before anyone tries to use too seriously the awful and thrilling word decadence, he ought to distinguish between the customary mess of life and the terminal wreckage of death...
...real cost of producing goods has jumped. Meanwhile, to keep demand up, the Government has created money and credit at far faster rates than businessmen can turn out products and services. The result: too much money chasing too few goods, which is a classic inflation. Largely because of the rapid expansion of money, the average household income is more than twice as much as it was ten years ago, or $16,100. Yet because of inflation, real purchasing power is up only 11%, and for millions of Americans it is now only the second income from a working wife that...
...countries as disparate as Sri Lanka, Canada and Algeria, there is an attraction to the new, incentive economics. Among developing nations, those that have prospered most have had the freest, most market-oriented economies: Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea, among others. In industrial Europe, incentive economics is making particularly rapid progress...
...come in the same way as spectators, lawyers, witnesses, defendants, everybody. Only a few feet of space separates the lawyers from the bench. That is not enough for histrionics, but then there is no jury to sway. There is only Judge White, and he is more interested in a rapid recitation of the facts than impassioned pleas or oratory...