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...censorship of publications is not only thoroughly repellent to the whole concept of freedom of expression, but it has been explicitly declared unconstitutional. The problem is, however, that in order to vindicate these rights, the staff and friends of the Avatar must "put their heads on the guillotine," to use the City Manager's phrase. With meager financial resources, and in the face of this constant, insistent harrassment, the Avatar may have to close up shop in frustration and disgust. Long, expensive legal battles are a drag--and in this case, they may not even be possible...
...make road signs still more easily recognizable, the committee also recommended greater use of uniform symbols, such as the European-style no-entry sign with a white horizontal bar on a red circle. After California installed such signs-which were lettered DO NOT ENTER-on its freeway exits two years ago, the number of fatalities caused by drivers heading up the down ramps was cut in half...
...Ball even suggested that multinational companies be allowed to escape the control of individual nations through a treaty creating an "international companies law." Only thus, Ball argues, can global enterprises avoid "the stifling restrictions imposed on commerce by the archaic limits of nation states" and realize their potential to "use the world's resources with maximum efficiency...
...separate petitions to the Civil Aeronautics Board, United, TWA, American and Eastern Air Lines asked permission to curtail use of the almost industry-wide "Discover America" excursion fares. Generally, such fares offer a 25% discount from regular round-trip jet coach rates, while requiring travelers to return no sooner than the following calendar week and no later than 30 days after they start. The fare cannot be used during two peak travel times: noon to midnight Fridays and noon Sundays to noon Mondays...
Better than Real. Sessions end with "battle tests," in which students use Harvard Business School case studies and take both sides of a merger that other businessmen have already consummated. "The deals arrived at in the work shops," says Columbia Professor Samuel Hayes, who referees the battle tests, "are consistently much better than they were in real life...