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...course of 60 years as a journalist and politician her experiences were such that an autobiography of the sort she has produced is far more welcome than those of a dozen better-known male politicians...
Leaders of Begin's conservative Likud coalition correctly argued that Israel was overdue for an economic cold-water treatment of some sort. In the wake of the 1973 war, Jerusalem's annual balance of payments deficit has ballooned from about $1 billion to $2.6 billion this year, causing total foreign indebtedness to soar to more than $10 billion. Meanwhile, an alarming rise in inflation (40% this year alone) has slowed real economic growth, from a 10% annual average to zero in 1977. Any thought of engineering a turnaround by expanding the Labor Party's elaborate, 29-year...
...which deal with heavy technology and machinery. In these industries, unions fighting for more employee rights are working squarely on the side of humanity. They try to improve the place of the individual in a monolithic business that usually resembles a large, impersonal machine more than it does any sort of communal human effort. Unions organizing among clerical and office workers are often bucking a similarly monolithic "system," in which the needs of individuals all too often take a back seat to the requirements of a bureaucratic structure...
MANY REPORTERS have forgotten the utilitarian motive of the off-the-record tool and wind up confusing the ends with the means. Until some sort of agreement is struck between the reporter and the source, a person doesn't have a "right" not to be quoted. If you don't want it in the press, don't say it. The reporter's first priority is to inform the reader of what is going on in the world; portecting his sources remains a secondary consideration. Only when the latter aids the former should the reporter start worrying about whom to quote...
...just as effective when silent. He has a talent mime, and his supple movements and flexible facial expressions give Littlechap the humanity that the scripted character lacks. During the final minutes of the show, Sellon all but convinces the audience that this Littlechap isn't such a bad sort, after...