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...defenders suffered from a lack of fresh water and hot food. They also suffered from the lack of an on-the-spot commander. Directing the battle from his headquarters at Kontum, 30 miles southeast of Ben Het, Lien rarely flew into the besieged outpost. As a result, he was unable to make the most effective use of the massive U.S. air power and artillery that were put at his disposal. Communications between the various defending units were also poor. Meanwhile, communications to the outside world about Ben Het set cable and telex wires humming. Hard-pressed to find stories...
...movie audiences today consist mostly of people under 25?are more sophisticated about sex than the previous generation, and in consequence may tend to be less excited or shocked by nudity or scenes that show copulation. The strongest evidence suggests that total permissiveness in the arts is a result, not a cause, of relaxed standards of conduct. The majority of psychologists and behaviorists in effect reassert the familiar dictum that no girl was ever ruined by reading a book?and no boy was ever seduced by a girl appearing onstage without her clothes...
...make matters worse, wages are rising much more rapidly than workers' productivity, as measured by the Commerce Department. As a result, labor costs per unit of output are climbing steadily. Manufacturers are compensating by raising the prices of their products. Thus, even large pay raises have yielded little if anything in added purchasing power. During the last three years, in fact, the purchasing power of the average U.S. worker has done no better than hold steady. Union leaders now feel that they must push for giant wage and benefit increases to keep their members ahead of price boosts...
...prospect of getting out of the red. Melchett has been frustrated in efforts to cut costs, partly by the government's policy of protecting the nationalized coal mines. BSC is not allowed to import low-cost foreign coal, and purchases of foreign oil are taxed extravagantly; as a result, steel's fuel bills are excessively high. To pay them, and the costs of modernization, Melchett proposed steel price increases totaling $128 million a year...
This is what French Novelist Michel Tournier has done. The beautifully translated result, though, is far more than a Cartesian blueprint fleshed into creaky fiction. Like Crusoe I, but more elaborately in Tournier's version, Crusoe II shakes off despondency by creating a makeshift England, complete with fertile fields, full storehouses, a church, a fortress and an elaborate code of law and punishment with which to govern himself...