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While Washington may have given Chrysler a reprieve and preserved jobs for its 137,000 employees in an election year, the action may be a dangerous example for a system in which the right to fail is as enshrined as the right to succeed. Moreover, if Chrysler cannot make a U-turn and start generating the profits needed to pay back its loans, the U.S. taxpayer could get stuck with a portion of the $1.5 billion tab. Assessing the action of his colleagues, Senator Barry Goldwater, the Arizona Republican who is a leading advocate of keeping government...
...have long reigned supreme in their own "chairs" of tenure, will be grouped in departments administered by a pool of professors and two elected students. The law also takes aim at another hallowed institution on the other side: the "eternal" students, who by the old rules, could take-and fail -the same exam three times a year without being drummed out. Now, to the wrath of the 60,000-member student union (E.F.E.E.), exams are being held only twice a year, and failure means repeating the academic year...
...weakening the student union while encouraging the "silent majority" of unorganized students. For its part, the government has made matters worse by accusing the students of seizing the campuses simply because "they are lazy and want the right to be 'eternal.' " But why do so many students fail the exams at all? A root cause is one that Law 815 ignores: overcrowding. Professors often lecture to classes of 1,500 students. Only 10% of Athens University's 45,000 students are housed in dorms. In addition, labs are ill-equipped, textbooks long outdated, libraries usually closed. Says...
Only a recluse could fail to know somebody who uses less ingenuity in living than in worrying and guarding against subtle hazards. Perhaps the surest sign that the admonitory mood is taking a toll is the fact that Americans have begun to write advice columnists about the problems that all the cautions cause. Warnings about cholesterol in eggs, nitrate in bacon, caffeine in coffee (and, a while back, risky chemicals in even the decaffeinated variety) have sapped the fun out of eating breakfast for some people, it seems. Wrote one such: "I'd try bread and water...
...There was plenty of blame for everyone, though. Hannon; the mayor, who should have seen the problem coming; and the school board's finance committee, which did not even meet between January 1978 and March 1979, owing to "personality conflict," as one member recalls. Why did the board fail to slam on the spending brakes sooner? Says Board Member Patricia O'Hern: "They also gave financial reports to our auditors. Now if one of the big eight auditing firms couldn't see what was going on, how could I? I'm just a housewife...