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...approving the bottle bill. King could have helped all of Massachusetts. As any visitor to Harvard Square will tell you, bottles and cans greatly contribute to urban litter. And in rural areas, too, unwelcome bottles put a blight on nature and upset ecology. The bill would not only prevent many a hitherto callous bottle-tosser from strewing the streets with refuse, it would also give passersby an incentive to pick up the discarded containers. And, as the economists would say, the resulting cleanliness represents an externality--a cost or benefit to society not reflected in the market price. By charging...
...operations are irreparably damaging the image of McDonald's around the world because of their failure to maintain strict standards of quality, service, and cleanliness-what McDonald's calls "QSC. In short, they contend Dayan's stores, particularly his highly visible outlets on the Champs Elysee, are "a blight on the system." "At stake here is the good McDonald's name that it took more than a quarter of a century for Ray Kroc (McDonald's founder) and the company to establish," Schultz told the Court...
...high as $2,500 per year. But whatever they cost, the schools do seem to excel at training in basic skills, personal courtesy and classroom decorum. A cross section of Christian schools-Christian Liberty Academy. "Government schools are a taxpayer rip-off and a blight on our students," says the Rev. Paul Lindstrom, 41, head of the Christian Liberty Academy in the Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights. A former inner-city schoolteacher, Lindstrom founded the academy in 1968 partly to oppose what he saw as creeping socialism in the public school curricula. Today, 150 students (preschool through twelfth grade...
Despite the advances made in all of these fields, no amount of Harvard know-how could generate what might have affected quite a few Harvard affiliates: relief from the yearly flu epidemic. The annual blight hit from late November to mid-January, keeping dozens of Harvardians bedridden for days. While healthy scientists busied themselves in their laboratories, sickly patients could only follow the age-old advice of Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, who recommended rest, fluids and aspirin...
Then again, Murphy is a poorly concieved, poorly written character. He's the Last Honest Cop, supposedly appalled by the corruption in the precinct and the squalor in the streets, an ancient cliche. Murphy might have been utilized as the liberal mouthpiece for the film-makers' ideas on urban blight--but Petrie and Gould blow it again. Murphy tells his Puerto Rican girlfriend that he stays in the Bronx because he wants to help the victimized citizenry, he says he understands them: "You see Puerto Ricans are really no different from us Irish. We both like to dance and drink...