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...absolutely true. It explains as well as could be explained how a group of people could, out of motives that were to them of the noblest quality, do things that were sometimes good and often bad. It also explains why it took four generations for the deeper questions to sink through the thick layers of pride and business and charity...
...virtuous isn't that complicated--if you want to be good, why not just do it (leave your car window intact, pay for your books, etc)? Virtue costs money, to be sure; but the part that really bothers Hills--what makes how to be good a question he can sink his teeth into--is that he's convinced virtue is deadly dull...
Daly said yesterday he expects to reach a decision sometime in May. He has four options: he could recommend to proceed with the original plan, to build on another site, to scrap all plans or to build on the same site but sink the building five feet deeper, which some say would result in less damage...
...been speculating for months about when-not if-the soldiers would take power. Conditions were deteriorating so rapidly that only the military could restore order (TIME, March 29). The generals were not exaggerating last week when they claimed that Argentina was faced with "a tremendous power vacuum threatening to sink it in disintegration and anarchy." Political killings, by right-and left-wing murder squads, had recently reached the staggering rate of three per day (more than 2,200 Argentines have been killed by terrorists since Mrs. Perón came to power). Inflation was roaring at the pace...
First Stage. Sink it promptly did-to a low of 4.775 to the dollar and a close of 4.72, v. 4.551 the week before last. That was the first stage in a decline that moneymen thought might eventually come to 10%. The drop seriously embarrassed the government of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. It was Giscard, a staunch proponent of currency stability, who had brought France back into the snake last July, over the objections of his top economic advisers...