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...present $920 million annual public service appropriation. The Administration is opposed to such an increase contending that mail users should pay for rising costs. Some Congressmen who want to return to the old post-office system note that the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 insists that the service strive to be selfsupporting...
...build the same foothold within Angola as did simultaneous popular movements in Guinea and Mozambique. But the Soviet Union provided such an efficient propaganda machine that it allowed MPLA to glower under the successes of the other two movements. The Angolan party felt less and less compelled to strive inside Angola for what the outside world believed they were already accomplishing, namely the formation of liberated areas within the Angolan countryside...
...secrets, but it has also spurred bureaucrats to even greater taciturnity. After all, what malefactor in his right mind would put anything incriminating-or even refreshingly outspoken-on paper nowadays? In addition, the copier's ability to turn confidential communications into bestsellers has encouraged memo drafters everywhere to strive for blandness. Says Professor Anthony Athos of the Harvard Business School: "When the writer knows that through the magic of Xerox many people will see what he has written, then it loses the sharp cutting edge and gains what I call administrative opacity. What we have is a proliferation...
...both my praises and my final warning: "To survive in the jungle of intellectuals, the sociobiologist had best tread softly in the zones of race and sex." I should also have stressed that critics--myself and others less laudatory--are under a special obligation in this sensitive area to strive for objectivity and civility. Natural scientists are learning the hard way what social scientists have never been allowed to forget, that interests and ideologies have a force of their own, not necessarily conducive to the determination of scientific truth. Paul A. Samuelson Institute Professor
Inveterate Go players swear the game draws out the true personalities of its participants. "You have to strive for a delicate balance in Go--like in your mind," Fred Hapgood '63, a Tuesday night regular, says. "But the balance is like a house of cards, it can tumble without warning--just like that...