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Handlin said that up until the 1969 disruption, the "silken threads" of self-restraint and mutually accepted conceptions of the value of education for its own sake held the structure of the University together...
...corporate-supported European studies. He gives the example of a rubber company that may pollute the air in a city and then feel compelled, out of community relations, to build a hospital in the area. Logically, then, if that company got its rubber from outside the country: "For the sake of argument, say they got the rubber from Liberia, well then why not put the money in African studies?" Most Ford executives sent to run Opel in Germany read "only two-three books on Germany" before going over, Goldman says, often causing strained relations between the corporation and the host...
Ruin and Collapse. It is axiomatic in Beckett's work that the concept of purpose is beyond comprehension. This may not be true, but if granted only for the sake of argument, everything tumbles into place. Waiting for Godot was after all the critical knuckle cracking, simply a play about waiting. Mercier and Camier are waiting under the illusion that they have some place to go, though they do not know where or why. They keep returning home to look for lost possessions or items they have al ready junked as superfluous. Along the way, pub stops...
...Jurivich, coach of the Radcliffe track club, said the women on the squad enjoy "running for its own sake" and that he feels there would be "no profound changes" in their enthusiasm if Radcliffe track became a varsity sport...
...better barometers of economic distress than unemployment among teenagers (19.9% v. 15.3%). But the BLS defends including marginal members of the work force in the overall figures on the grounds that they are counted as employed when they hold jobs and thus, for the sake of consistency, should be regarded as unemployed when they...