Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avoid that, General Saiyud Kherdpol, director of the anti-guerrilla Internal Security Operations Command, has sketched a strategy for winning popular support. In a strikingly frank book, Thailand's Future, published last month, Saiyud concedes that military planners "always look at those who suffer and struggle for justice as Communists." He argues that the government must side with demands for reform in political, economic and administrative structures. Only by doing that, Saiyud feels, can the military undercut the insurgents' appeals and "keep the people from the influence of the enemy...
Meaningless Numbers. Some of the earnings "loss" that companies stand to suffer with replacement-cost accounting could be made up by reduced corporate taxes. But many businessmen and economists still doubt the basic value of the system. They point out that estimating replacement costs is a highly subjective business. A machine might be obsolete and thus hard to price. Its replacement, because of unproved technology, could even cost less. "The numbers just don't mean anything," warns International Business Machines Economist David Grove. But John C. Burton, who pushed through the new rules as chief accountant...
...sink from having the best housing for sophomores to by far the worst. If the intent of the proposal is to solve the Quad's popularity problem, this is not the way to do that. If the number of people at the Quad is reduced, then the River Houses suffer...
...since most people who currently ask to live at the Quad either were freshmen there or know people who were). While the Quad will have more sophomores, the River Houses must also become more crowded--even those who wish to and are able to live at the River will suffer. The only conceivable benefit is that sophomores living in Canaday will be living in a House. But even this is a two-edged sword: many people have chosen to move out of the Quad into Canaday in order to eventually live at a River House. Now this option will...
...cannot accept Mr. Steven Schorr's remarks re. Gary Gilmore (Crimson, Nov. 17, 1976). They are reprehensible not only because they suffer from misguided albeit well-intentioned liberalism, but because they are the remarks of a smug guilt-mongerer whose j'accuse of society attempts at once to absolve Gary Gilmore of any and all miscreant deeds and to place the burden of all crimes committed anywhere by anyone, on society...