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...South is also being accorded its political due in new ways. Much of President Nixon's Southern Strategy was unsound, for it appealed to the baser instincts of the South. But it also right fully acknowledged the necessity of restoring the region's sense of belonging to the rest of the nation, of bringing the South into national political councils. The appointment of a Southern jurist to the Supreme Court was an admirable goal. But Nixon chose poorly in both his attempts. His efforts to slow the completion of school integration and to prevent busing as a means of racially...
...Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, disagreed with the group's desire to isolate South Africa from the rest of the scientific world. "I agreed completely with their motivations but the methodology of creating an intellectual blockade in education, arts, or the sciences I consider an unsound method of bringing about that scat of change," Whipple said...
...settlement of the conflict in Indochina. The recent expansion of the war into Cambodia and Laos has made the implications of Vietnamization more and more apparent. Even if these actions were to achieve certain short. range military objectives, these are in the service of a policy that is itself unsound and immoral. Vietnamization and its concomitant political and military actions represent a continuation of the killing, the decimation, and the subjugation of the people of Indochina, with active American support and participation. We shudder at the evil that our government is committing in our names...
These take-out sandwiches and cokes from Tommy's and Hazen's and God know's where Else's are ecologically unsound. Think, if you can for this moment of the vibrant trees thrusting themselves towards the sun from the earth. yearning to breathe free like you or me, that must be cut down in the full sap of their youth to wrap a roast beef special...
Decreasing the margin on stock purchases was unsound economic policy. If stock purchased on margin goes down and the investor can't repay his broker, the broker sells the stock at the lower price to get what is owed him, plus interest. This selling off of margined stock can further depress an already bearish market and has done so for a matter of hours several times during...