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...expected to scrutinize 134 entries within nine hours. McCormally claims that such a system "allows for some pretty good journalism to get lost." More importantly he contends that the selection group is too narrowly based to encompass all that is new and vital in journalism. For the sake of diversity he would add such nonjournalists as Jesse Jackson, Saul Alinsky, Daniel Berrigan and Spiro Agnew...
...careless quality control but bad engineering decisions. In effect, the faults are designed into the cars-unintentionally to be sure -by engineers making the wrong compromises between safety, cost and speed considerations. In the current case, Ford redesigned its 1972 Torinos and Montegos, making them heavier for the sake of a smoother ride, yet engineers thought that they could safely hold down costs by using the same axle as the one that went onto the 1971s. Richard Judy, public relations manager for consumer services, admits: "Maybe all factors were not given careful consideration...
Academically, I have done well. After my first semester's academic shellacking. I quickly found out that for the sake of grades I had a prescribed role to play in this institution. I would have to always give teachers what they wanted, and rarely what I truly believed, for my beliefs were usually in conflict with the professor. In classes taught by whites, like Pettigrew's class on Race Relations. I returned my thinking to 1962 and wrote as I thought Martin Luther King would have because I knew that that was what Pettigrew wanted. For most of the Afro...
...texts and a taste for turpitude, Fraser now appears to be parlaying the fictional recollections of his imaginary character into something closely resembling a perpetual motion novel. Of course it helps to have a rotter like Harry Flashman up front. "Bluff, my boy-bluff, shift and lie for the sake of your neck and the honor of Old England." "Charles Elliott
...ideas interacted in Liang's mind is a sobering reminder of the difficulties involved in communication between different cultures. Chang shows how Liang would favor those Western ideas which verified his predispositions (i.e. Benjamin Kidd's idea of sacrifice of the individual's rights in the present for the sake of the collective good in the future). The author has also shown how Liang misunderstood the philosophy of Jeremy Bentham...