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...America's eyesores are so unsightly as its millions of junk automobiles," continued the President. He noted that it is now cheaper to abandon old cars in city streets and fields than to take them to wreckers. A possible solution, Nixon said, would be to include the cost of disposing of a car in its purchase price -which would entail yet another increase in the cost...
...head of the order, Anita Caspary intended that the Immaculate Heart experiments in renewal should be guided by the rather vague proposals put forward by the Second Vatican Council. "But slowly," she says, "the whole thing exploded." To facilitate their engagement with the realities of secular life, the nuns abandoned their habits, gave up scheduled prayers, and went beyond their teaching apostolate to take up a wider variety of public services. Cardinal Mclntyre objected to many of these departures from tradition; so did the Vatican, which last year ordered the nuns to abandon most of their ventures in reform...
...President must have so many focal points of concern that no one problem can occupy him for too long," he said in 1963. The CRIMSON that year commented: "Pusey has adjusted gradually to these diversified pressures, but adjustment has forced him to abandon the intimate contact with college policy, faculty, and student body which he had at Lawrence...
Sociologists Simon and Gagnon take issue with some authorities who insist that youthful addicts can emerge unharmed from their encounter with narcotics. "The real danger," they write, "is that they will lose a sense of their real capacity for experience and that they will abandon claims for an influential role in the collective enterprise of the society. Their future will become a progressive drift toward a totally privatized existence...
Them v. Us. The G.E. struggle cannot be regarded simplistically as a battle of greedy workers v. inflation-fighting executives. In the minds of the strikers, the primary issue was not even economic. Their aim was to force G.E. to abandon its bargaining strategy of "Boulwarism," named after Lemuel Boulware, G.E.'s labor relations chief in the 1950s. Boulwarism calls for management to make and stick to an initial "firm, fair" offer to employees and to attempt to convince workers of the offer's merits by conducting vigorous "employee marketing" campaigns. Union loyalists have long regarded this strategy...