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...however, has long since gone by the boards in managing the ugly thrift crisis, which after years of alarmed attention is still getting decidedly worse. So bad is the problem, warns Lowell Bryan, a director of the McKinsey & Co. management-consulting firm, that "our entire credit system has become unsound...
...original change in plans drew angry responses from more than 200 Cabot House residents who said that Eliot Hall was presently "structurally unsound." Several times over the past year, ceilings and walls in the building have crumbled and plumbing has backed...
...must be made case by case with subtlety, sophistication and patience. Differences of degree as well as kind must be recognized. It is not enough to put governments into two files, democratic and undemocratic. There are regimes that are improving and regimes that are deteriorating. There are sound and unsound democracies, tolerable and intolerable dictatorships, more or less repression. Even "corruption," so offensive to most Americans, comes in different degrees and must be judged--and fought--in a local context and in the light of local mores. It is the precarious business of statesmanship to recognize these differences...
...fears expressed toward the military option are either historically unsound or easily prevented. Merely rewriting the bill as it passes through Congress would be sufficient to ensure that the military option will remain fully voluntary. Further, the existence of the draft did not encourage any more U.S. adventurism in the '50s, than a lack of one has in the '80s. Finally, one of the central benefits of national service would be training and job-related skills experience for all American young people, and not just those who choose to enlist in the armed forces...
Leon Kamin, a Princeton psychologist who has long opposed Herrnstein in the IQ debate, thinks the Wilson-Herrnstein material is based on unsound studies. "Fashions change in the social sciences," he says. "Sometimes the environmentalists are in the saddle, so they will look at fatally flawed data and say, 'Look, these suggest an environmental interpretation,' and other times the hereditarians are in the saddle and say, 'Look, these suggest a genetic interpretation.' The data are fundamentally ambiguous, and, in fact, scientists have no basis to come to any conclusions with data of this sort...