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Dread Sound. To aid that prosecution, the state attorney general's office and a grand jury have been conducting their own intensive investigation, but so far they have filed no charges. Two weeks ago, Chief Prosecutor Robert Fischer sought to supplement his information by subpoenaing the McKay commission's confidential records. Announcing that he would fight, the commission's general counsel angrily declared that he had obtained most interviews only by promising that they would not be shown to the prosecutor, an arrangement agreed to by the state...
Skills constitute the manipulative techniques of human goal attainment and control in relation to the physical world, so far as artifacts or machines especially designed as tools do not yet supplement them. Truly human skills are guided by organized and codified knowledge of both the things to be manipulated and the human capacities that are used to manipulate them. Such knowledge is an aspect of cultural-level symbolic processes, and, like other aspects to be discussed presently, requires the capacities of the human central nervous system, particularly the brain. This organic system is clearly essential to all of the symbolical...
...originally intended to induce banks and other private lenders to provide student loans. Under GILP, the Office of Education guarantees loans in full. It will cancel loans in case of death or total disability: provide interest subsidies for low-income students: and pay the lender an interest supplement intended to make student loans as attractive as alternative investments...
...payments begun. The revenue to finance income protection is expected to come from the higher interest rate available under GILP--7 per cent from these not receiving Federal interest subsidies, and 7.75 per cent on subsidized. The extra three-quarters of one per cent is the current Federal interest supplement which may vary with market conditions...
Such an approach allows Empire State to enroll students like Jim Walsh, 24, who hates classrooms and is earning degree credits by working at an Indian archaeological dig near Saratoga; Steve Hasso, 17, who is studying literature, history and political science to supplement his senior year in high school; and Mary Ellen Musgrave, 28, who found nursing so intellectually unchallenging that she is now studying philosophy, art and music, and will receive her bachelor's degree next month. Perhaps more typical is Auto Worker Cardinal, who wants to "understand what it is that makes our lives miserable as workers...