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Kosygin was obviously aware of his ultimate audience. He was clearly determined to impress fellow Communists as well as Americans with his toughness-in part, perhaps, to discourage and weaken U.S. resolve over Viet Nam. The toughness is genuine enough; at the same time, the Russian line is often a few shades softer than it sounds in public statements...
Ending this financial pressure would weaken state universities, whose low fees attract state residents, and community colleges, whose students usually cannot afford to live away from home. Unless they would be willing to see their best students use the loans to attend a more expensive college, institutions would be forced to compete for them by raising the quality of their education. This process would probably lead to higher tuition costs...
...that he had never seen it, and that "whatever it is, it is a confidential document and somebody stole it." Actually no more than a working paper, it was probably just one of many strategies that G.M. had routinely considered (as do other companies in other industries) to weaken union pressure...
...measures that have been suggested so far can be anything but arbitrary, unjust, and offensive. Punishing a handful of randomly selected scapegoats will stir, not deter, rancorous anti-University protests. It will weaken, not encourage, respect for the rules. Most important, it would simply be unreasonable, and there is no compelling reason for the University to rush headlong now into harsh action...
Loyalists supplied the redcoats with food when George Washington's men were desperately hungry; they circulated counterfeit Continental currency to weaken the rebel economy, and they distributed handbills urging wavering patriots to switch to the British side. Some 50,000 actually took up arms and joined British regiments. In 1780, when Washington's troop roster numbered a mere 9,000, there were 8,000 Americans fighting in redcoat units...