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...workers; in Mexico only 14 of its 2,000 employees are North Americans. "All we want is loyalty, honesty and hard work," says Sears' Venezuelan boss. "We'll teach them the rest." One thing that Sears has already taught its competitors in Latin America is the basic tenet of all U.S. retailers-big volume, not high markups, is the key to profits. And Sears stores have already caused general price reductions in their localities...
Abhoring every tenet and implication of collectivism. Buckley claims that Yale economic courses are saturated with anti-free enterprise thought. Selecting judicious quotes, he demonstrates that all the texts in Economics 10 preach government control in varying degrees. Marx, Hitler, Laski, Huxley, and Dewey are propounded without any intelligent reports by philosophy professors. No teacher at Yale goes unscathed by the author's analysis of the curriculum...
...Warned against mixed marriages with Roman Catholics: ". . . We reaffirm both the sacredness of an individual's religious faith, in which the husband and wife must be equally free and that a fundamental tenet of our faith is violated if either the husband or wife is forced to sign away the religion of unborn children...
...your April 30 article covering the case of the Labrenzes who refused for religious reasons to allow a blood transfusion to save the life of their child: the whole subject appears to me to involve ... the fundamental right of society to prohibit suicide or murder by religious tenet . . . The Chicago court's action in denying the parents' right to murder their child by a default based on religious principle is a healthy indication...
...author's skillful use of small details also adds interest to the latter parts of the book. For example, in Arizona Mitchell Hickok has been praised for spelling names correctly, a traditional tenet of accurate journalism. But when Mitch is interviewed by New York reporters, they spell his name wrong...