Word: result
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...says Columbia Professor Alan Westin. "I suspect in the next decade the Supreme Court will have to think in terms of the impact of large-scale technology on the individual, increasingly in terms of privacy." Westin, like many others, sees much of the court's recent activism as a result of inaction by the other two branches of Government. Says he: "When the nation has a broad political consensus for moving forward, but the political machinery holds it back, the court must go ahead...
...memory bank of social knowledge and data assembled by the Russell Sage Foundation, of which he is a trustee. More and more the courts "enter into everybody's life every day, from pre-womb to post-tomb," and a many-sided approach, using all the disciplines, could result in something more satisfactory than "the frustrations and agonies of undebatable principle in sharp conflict with undeniable fact...
...desirable residential and commercial areas, Makati lacks Manila's traffic jams, boasts lower taxes, cheaper office rentals and better telephone service. Over the past five years, the Ayalas have attracted such leading firms as the beer-making San Miguel Corp., Colgate-Palmolive, IBM and Eastman Kodak. As a result, Makati's Ayala Avenue is sprouting a forest of office buildings that are taller and more modern than most commercial buildings in downtown Manila...
...Loew's tender offer, which expires at the end of this week, will fail to attract enough stock to win control. But in one sense, Loew's stands to win even if it loses. The takeover struggle has sent Commercial Credit's stock soaring, with the result that Loew's last week showed a paper profit of more than $20 million on its holding in the company...
...general air in this second volume of his autobiography is one of diversion rather than dedication, the method more anecdotal than analytical; the result is a rather pleasurable belles-lettres excursion into nostalgia, not a profound exercise in self-revelation. Taken as such, it is rarely dull. In this book at least, written partly in 1931 and picked up again after World War II, Russell is still a master prose stylist and an elegant wit, with a bitchy touch of the Wilde...