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...there is "speculation" in the Department of a substantive change in sophomore tutorial. This change would make tutorial more nearly uniform for all sophomores, and its major aim would be to introduce the student to various approaches to political science, Maass noted that this would give the student a sounder basis for choosing an approach to junior tutorial...
...thing unheard of - collect the country's taxes. A new tax bill, rammed through Congress, has boosted top personal in come taxes to 43%. Old industrial incentive tax exemptions (some as long as 25 years) will be examined, perhaps renegotiated. To make it all harder to swallow-but sounder by half-he appointed as chief tax collector a bright young U.S.-trained economist, Rodrigo Núñez, 29, who immediately sent auditors to check the books of the country's biggest companies...
...Enough." Sloan makes it plain that he holds strictly oldfashioned, lean-hound-dog notions about how to run a company. "The final act of business judgment is intuitive," he says, and "no organization is sounder than the men who run it." He makes clear his belief that the chief responsibility of an executive is to make decisions-even at the risk of making wrong ones...
...Beast. Weeks ago, Atlantis II, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, lowered "The Beast," a weird M.I.T.-designed rig. At the end of the Beast's 9,000-ft. cable, a small echo sounder measured its distance from the bottom. A pair of powerful strobe lights flashed at six-second intervals, and two cameras took pictures. In the eternal darkness at 8,000 ft., they needed no shutters; they merely advanced their film in time for the next flash from the strobes...
Nothing, however, precludes a Young Republican member from being intimately familiar with issues on his own. And by working as well in the Young Republican Club he learns early the lessons of practical politics that can give him sounder judgment than the aspiring Republican who remains aloof from the YR's. If his experience brings enemies early, it also brings firm friends. From shared political projects in the Young Republicans, peripheral and unaffiliated organizations can spring...