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...boot camp when one man broke the rules, our chief used to restrict the whole company. . . . In persuading Congress to tighten the on-the-job training law, the Veterans Administration has followed the same line, penalizing the majority in order to weed out offenses committed by a small minority...
Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, mother of three, all girls, was again in an interesting condition. As a delicately euphemistic palace announcement put it, the Princess "for a joyful reason has to restrict her activities." Stolid Netherlanders, under petticoat rule since 1890, started hoping for a royal...
...refusal to consider long-run effects on the nation as a whole. In support of his thesis, the author cites labor's featherbedding, the gouge of "parity prices" for the farmer, consumer insistence on price control, and similar examples of what to him is selfish myopia which can only restrict production...
...various new ceilings as adjusted by O.P.A. officials tend to make the buyer uncertain of any fact except the one that his cost of living is going up. Although increases now appear to have the sanction of law, many student budgets will have become inadequate unless buyers continue to restrict their demands to needed items and minimum quanties...
...argue that it is right that unions should escape responsibility for the acts of their agents. He does not argue that it is right for unions to violate their contracts. He does not argue that it is right for unions to combine with others to fix prices or restrict competition. This, apparently, would be carrying the matter a little...