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...morality. It can command hard decisions as well as easy ones-acceptance of martyrdom, for example, when law morality would permit surrender or compromise. It can also say that certain acts are immoral which law ethics would consider tech nically valid. To the situationist, says Fletcher, "even a transient sex liaison, if it has the elements of caring, of tenderness and selfless concern, is better than a mechanical, egocentric exercise of conjugal 'rights' between two uncaring or antagonistic marriage partners...
...thought out the school bussing issue quite honestly, listed the pro's and con's on both sides, and opted against the technique. He is persuasive much of the time, slipping only once into a non-sequitur, He says that "it is not the role of the militant, transient, outside groups to stir up agitation in school districts for local action," and yet confidently suggests that "the money that would be spent on large scale bussing programs could be put to better use to upgrade weak, racially-imbalance schools." The overemotional association of militancy with outside agitation aside, Mr. Koivumaki...
These figures suggest that Romney has the solid support of a large part of the Michigan electorate--but not quite a majority. The voters who gave him his big 1964 margin were those with the weakest and most changeable preferences, and they were motivated in large part by transient factors--most notably their reaction to the assassination of President Kennedy. If this critical portion of the Romney majority is so soft, then it is just possible that he can be beaten when he runs for reelection (to a newly-lengthened four-year term) next year...
...that is transient...
Most affected, therefore, will be the outdoor advertising industry-and the proprietors of restaurants, motels, and other transient-dependent businesses that happen to lie away from the mainstream of traffic. Lady Bird's bill governing junkyards calls for the elimination or screening off of such ugliness within 1,000 feet of federal highways or primary roadways. It is a case where the battle between beauty and need (the U.S. junked 6,100,000 cars last year) again resulted in compromise...