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Before his appointment in 1953, Classical Scholar Pusey had spent nine years as the easygoing but highly principled president of Lawrence College (800 students) in Appleton, Wis. At Harvard, his persistence became a flaw. Long admired for integrity, he was eventually criticized for Olympian remoteness...
...debate over growth has exposed still another flaw in economic measurements. The G.N.P. indiscriminately includes social "bads" on the same basis as goods (or services). For example, the cost of bullets used in gangsters' guns goes into the national accounts with the same weight as the price of pencils or computers. Nothing is subtracted from the value of gasoline or autos because they befoul the atmosphere, or from farm output because fertilizer runoff helps choke rivers with green scum...
...flaw: the federal agency probably could not override state, regional or local bonding statutes. In consequence, any municipality that reached the legal limit of its bonding capacity might still be unable to build even desperately needed treatment plants...
...number seven. Pete Abrams dropped a close first game to the Tigers' Rusty Johnson. 12-15, but then fought back to lead in the match, 15-9, 15-2. During intermission several of the Princeton players who had already been eliminated told Johnston of a flaw they thought they saw in Abrams' game...
...member of an age group that can reasonably expect to be alive in the year 2000 (if anyone is still around), I was excited by the President's emphasis on cleaning up the environment in the State of the Union address. It contains, however, one glaring flaw: his acceptance as inevitable of a growth in the U.S. population of more than 100 million people in the next 30 years...