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...even for a black man (if he already has his money.) When Priest finds out that he can't escape at all--the Man won't let such a good seller go, and the Man happens to be also the Deputy Police Commissioner-Priest must use his wits and restrain his brawn, come out with a plan that can trap even the highest head on the dope trade totem pole sans direct violence. He wins because of his intelligence, and because he is right--of all the blacks who were sucked into illicit trade, at least...
Economists,' ecologists and entrepreneurs should strive to increase clean, nonpolluting growth and to restrain the kind of growth that exhausts resources and pollutes the environment. One problem is that there is no reliable indicator that measures and distinguishes between different kinds of growth. Economic performance is gauged by the gross national product, a truly gross and misleading measure. Activities that are useless (like the printing of reports that the recipients throw in the wastebasket without reading) or even destructive (the development of highly polluting production technologies) swell G.N.P. as long as money is spent on them. At best, G.N.P...
...critics imagine. Then, too, Nixon has difficulty in saying no on personal staff matters and in firing people, and he still smarts from Eisenhower's indecision over keeping him for a second term. There were immediate signs, however, that this time Agnew may be under presidential pressure to restrain his oratory. Nixon has told him to attack the Democrats forcefully on the issues, but to refrain from assailing personalities...
...pianist, inappropriately armed with an instrument designed to combat a full orchestra, obviously wins, unless he can be persuaded to restrain his superior forces; second place usually goes to the violinist, by virtue of the brilliance of his upper register. In third place is the cellist, ironically playing perhaps the most expressive of the three instruments. And the composer is fortunate, indeed, if he receives an accidental honorable mention somewhere in the midst of the bellicose uproar...
...bitter as the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile flap of 1968-69. The present strategic-arms-limitation accords, which are known collectively as SALT I, are intended to be merely a first stage. They are supposed to clear the way for SALT II, a comprehensive agreement that may some day restrain, and perhaps even reduce the full range of strategic weapons maintained by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The SALT II talks are not even scheduled to begin until October, and they could go on for years -or collapse overnight. Until the main event takes place, however, SALT I will...