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...Franco-German pact, and he hoped Bonn would remain on warm terms with Paris. But, he added emphatically, "we must also cultivate relations with other European states, especially with Great Britain." It was hint enough that Bonn wanted no part of Charles de Gaulle's narrow concept of Europe, would continue to press for Britain's entry into the Common Market...
...emphasized the importance of "spelling, mathematics, geography, and grammar," and then states the educated man "would find that mathematics and philosophy are not such strange bed-fellows and that Buddha's teachings can have meaning for the twentieth century American." He will also have "freed himself from the concept of utility." All of this sounds very nice, on first reading, but on the second go-round it comes out as the syllabus for a sort of parody of a Gen Ed course...
...concept of parity is quite straight forward. A right handed glove viewed in a mirror appears as a left handed glove and vice versa. The act of looking into the mirror is the essence of the idea of parity. Parity conservation implies that physical laws do not depend upon handedness; a left and right glove dropped from the top of Holyoke Center will reach the ground together. Even on the atomic level physical laws do not depend upon handedness. (In fact they must be explicitly independent of any reference to "left" or "right...
Diversification is a relatively new concept for Coke. In the 30 years that rough and ready Robert Woodruff, 73, ran the company, Coca-Cola preened itself as a giant with a single product, a onetime cough elixir dispensed globally in wasp-waisted 6½-oz. bottles. Complacency caught up with the giant a decade ago; other companies made inroads with bigger bottles, and Pepsi even pulled ahead in some areas. Woodruff, whose position as chairman of the finance committee is buttressed by the fact that he owns Coke stock worth $30 million, was finally persuaded that the corporate horizon should...
...question of sexual intimacy in a university atmosphere is not basically a moral question.... Sexual intimacy fulfills cultural as well as psychological needs of late adolescence in a society whose cultural forms are changing rapidly.... Morality is a relative concept projecting certain mythologies associated with magico-religious beliefs...