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Speaking at the Kennedy School Forum, Stigler said that as economists struggle to increase the efficiency and equity measures of public programs, institutions guilty of the "sin of myopia with respect to future needs" respond only to individual directives...
...right. There is that conviction that he would triumph, that he would be proven right. Now, that's not psychohistory, but I think that's the answer. Otherwise, then he's a fool--and I really don't believe that at all. I think it's the sin of pride he might preach against...
...three dozen major U.S. military bases in West Germany, community leaders welcome dependent families as a moderating influence on military behavior, which they say would be much worse in an unaccompanied force. "Kaiserslautern used to be sin city back in the 1950s," says Marie Mayer, a West German community relations adviser for the U.S. Air Force. "There was a lot of drinking and fighting by single G.I.s, who were in the majority back then. Now, with more people married, the military is much better behaved." About 30% of the soldiers in today's volunteer Army are married...
...nearly four years on the job was passed last month on an opulent new Chinese restaurant in midtown Manhattan called Dish of Salt. Not a single star did it rate, out of a potential maximum of four; instead, it got a boldface Poor. Sheraton rapped the place for every sin from pretentious décor to "lackadaisical and inept" service. The fish and lobster were "hopelessly overcooked." The egg roll "oozed grease." The spareribs were "dreadful," the dim sum were "stale," the sesame beef roll "stiff and cold." As for the chrysanthemum tea, it "could easily have been matched with...
...those ideas are given a human dimension. The reader encounters Calvin's doctrines and doubts tossed in a mind as agonized as his tubercular body. The godfather of capitalism assures a rich man that wealth is part of God's plan rather than a sin-but at the same time condemns gouging employers and supports strikes. In one fascinating intellectual exercise, Norton-Taylor offers his own version of a Calvin text, the reformer arguing with himself in verse about predestination: the doctrine that God has foreordained the salvation or damnation of each man from the beginning of time...