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...issue of the economy, while liberal candidates support large-scale public works programs to relieve unemployment, Carter stresses the role of free enterprise in providing more jobs. He does not believe that the Government should guarantee every American a job, and he opposes the Humphrey-Hawkins bill that would commit the Government to bringing unemployment down to 3% within three or four years. To do that, Washington would have to spend so much that inflation would rage anew. But in some cases, Carter would have the Government make direct payments to industry to subsidize more jobs. If a company...
...next ten minutes, McGuire combined with Hooft and Alexander James to turn an 11-5 deficit into a 32-19 advantage. The Harvard press was forcing Dartmouth to commit repeated turnovers and the tight man-to-man defense caused the Green Machine to travel time after time...
...reprehensible, but it is not The Crimson's prerogative to summarily refuse Aramco the right to advertise because of Saudi Arabia's domestic policies. Through its editorial columns The Crimson can and does attack these policies; to prohibit Aramco from advertising under the guise of moral responsibility is to commit a crime of equal proportion to Saudi Arabia's racism...
...huge facade-face of a mouse on the hills over Hollywood. The tongue (originally the handle of the movie camera) was to protrude out into space. From this elevation the movie camera-mask-mouse-skull would watch over Hollywood, its creation and its creator. Oldenburg commented: "Maybe people would commit suicide off the tongue, like the Golden Gate bridge...
...Harvard to demonstrate that this University is not an "easy" target for any sort of crime. Unfortunately, that is exactly the image which Harvard, as well as most universities, have encouraged precisely because of such unwillingness on the part of university police to "bother" with prosecuting outsiders who commit difficult-to-prove crimes like tresspassing and petty larceny...