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...deals in tax matters dug out the line from Jean Baptiste Colbert, the tax collector for Louis XIV, who set the tone for all that followed him: "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing." So far, he reckons, Country Boy Carter has plucked well, though there surely is some hissing in the background...
Graduate schools do not profess to train people to write at the greatest possible length for the smallest possible number. But they might as well take credit for the job. Thanks to a number of factors,¹ the typical scholarly article is now a footnote-clotted monstrosity comprehensible only to the few friends, enemies and students who already know what is on the author's mind. Everybody talks about the academic smog; Mary-Claire van Leunen, a writer and editor, has done something about...
...which began with Thomas Alva Edison's electric light bulb. Radio wave communication became a reality in 1915 with the invention of wireless telegraphy or "radio," and since then, inventors and scientists and engineers have honed their skills in radio wave technology, eventually learning to cram waves into the smallest possible frequencies technology could manage...
...Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, said, "What [the resolution] says, I would say, is that in the future ineffective protest is allowed, but effective protest means suspension and dismissal." We can only support the resolution if we believe that the greatest moral cause must bow to the smallest University rule. The current resolution states, "The Faculty regards it as implicit in the language of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities that intense personal harassment of such a character as to amount to grave disrespect for the dignity of others be regarded as an unacceptable violation of the personal...
...stamp-the smallest ever issued by the U.S. Government-wins public acceptance, the Postal Service may soon adopt the smaller format for all the 13? stamps that it sells in sheets. Since about 3.6 billion of them are issued each year, the annual savings in paper is expected to be some $700,000. Sorry, but the economical ministamp cannot be sold in rolls; that would make obsolete all the vending and high-speed affixing machines...