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...beacon of hope for the rest of Latin America has been extinguished. For the moment, we must try to pressure the U.S. government to stop the killing. For the future, we must hope that somehow the Left can regroup and that socialism will return to Chile. And we must strive to insure that in the future the American government does not kill any more dreams...
...totally different though no less quintessentially American operation: a computerized, standardized, premeasured, superclean production machine efficient enough to give even the chiefs of General Motors food for thought. In the $8 billion-a year fast-food industry, McDonald's is only one of dozens of chains that strive for uniformity in menu and service. But none has ever surpassed McDonald's in automating the ancient art of cooking and serving food...
...casualness is deceptive in such a disciplined musician. Too many conductors today strive for originality but end up either with mere visceral excitement or drab sterility. Levine succeeds by being disarmingly strict regarding what the score says in black and white and delightfully lyrical, like Orpheus, among the gray shades of interpretation...
...academic rat race continues, and as long as the departments stress the thesis so heavily, undergraduates will strive to beat the deadlines, to write the summa paper, to make their Who's Who's listing more impressive. Although the thesis only counts one-third toward the degree award in most departments, an inordinate amount of importance has been placed on its quality. As a result, undergraduates have become increasingly aware of the inequities of a system that can probably never be equitable, and the cries of anguish have grown louder in recent years...
...latest program call for an increase of .5 per cent over the next two years in the number of women holding full professorships and an increase of .4 per cent in the number of minority group members with the same position. In the lecturer category, the University will "strive" to increase the number of women by 1 per cent and the number of minority group members by a generous .4 per cent...