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...plugging airline-style package weekend tours that include train and hotel reservations in a single, discount price, and has negotiated car-rental discounts for Amtrak passengers at some destination points. Although these are not exactly startling innovations, the attitude behind them is the exact opposite of the viewpoint of private railroad executives, most of whom believe that passengers only get in the way of freight...
Egypt's Anwar Sadat, who has recently been pressing a diplomatic campaign to enlist sympathy for the Arab viewpoint, remained pointedly silent. So did King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, once a noted financial contributor to the Palestinians. He could hardly have been pleased that the attack took place in the Saudi embassy and that the Saudi ambassador was one of the five hostages. Even Yasser Arafat, the leader of Al-Fatah, the largest Palestinian nationalist group, made a point of trying (some what unconvincingly) to dissociate his organization from Black September...
...time it was a good business to go into, from the employers' viewpoint. Today the only way to make substantial profits is by owning factories in a foreign country (e.g. Japan) or at a lower return, by operating out of the South and Southwest (e.g. Farah Pants, Blauer Manufacturing...
...think it is an error to appraise any kind of music from a principally commercial viewpoint as you did in your story on pop records [Feb. 12]. Music, after all, is music, a species of art. The promoters and wheeler-dealers couldn't have made Yesterday (to name one pop classic) any more meaningful or beautiful. The quality of a song is unalterable...
STILL, IN PRINCIPLE, this criteria could be extended to any citizen who decided to take up an observer's position in order to "enlarge his intellectual viewpoint." (Since it is actions, and not sentiments that are here required to be neutral, a journalist needn't express a neutral point of view. "Ideological plugola" would be allowed.) And because most citizens would be unwilling to always adopt such a disinterested stance, the instances where such a privilege would be granted would be inherently limited. Perhaps fulfillment of the traditional ideal of neutrality, at least with respect to actions, is the price...