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...power is to be exercised effectively, it has to be exercised selectively. A President selectively. A President cannot squander his energies, his attention and his ability to make things happen on the trivial without slighting the important...
Many faculty feel students can too easily manipulate the system to take trivial or easy courses--"jelly rolls," in Rice jargon--in areas outside their major, Wiener said...
...Reagan explains this aspect of his ideological roots with a personal anecdote. While serving as an Army base adjutant in California, he noticed that the civilian employees sent in by Washington were far less efficient than the military personnel. They had a much higher ratio of administrators to workers. Trivial, perhaps, but Reagan has brought up that experience in two conversations, nine months apart, to explain the beginnings of his belief that the federal bureaucracy is overblown...
...room near Heathrow Airport" and pressed on him a copy of Captain William Bligh's Log of H. M.S. Bounty, put out by a firm in Surrey called Genesis. This, and a televi sion program on the making of fine books, gave George the idea of "having these trivial bits of paper dignified in this...
...trivial, some will surely say; and too dignified as well. Only 2,000 copies of I Me Mine exist and over half are sold. There will not be a second run. The question of a paperback has not come...