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Oliver Brooks, chairman of the Task Force, said yesterday that the new committee--called the Academic Technical Advisory Committee--would examine the framework of the environmental impact statement, looking especially at data collection and data analysis...
...crude and refined products). Most important, there are no adequate models that might foretell how the U.S. economy will react to the first energy scarcity in its history. Explains Alan Greenspan, a consultant who frequently advises the Nixon Administration: "In classic forecasting, we have worked in a conceptual framework into which we have tried to put numbers based on history. But this is a whole new bird...
...this process, a framework arises--a group vocabulary--through which these personal problems and problems of sexual politics generally can be better understood. As remarkable as is the breakdown which often occurs in mixed groups, what is more remarkable is how little such breakdowns are understood if the group's members don't already have the verbal means to discuss their interactions. When double standards are applied, those culpable deny that their obvious self-contradictions are contradictory, sometimes contending that certain events are not really taking place...
...rhapsodic in his meticulous, almost poetic description of the inspiration the ocean offers Skelton--seascapes of rocky bottom and tide-waved weeds; schools of fish gliding instinctively past each other without colliding; the expert crafting from scratch of Tom's skiff; the art of guiding that provides a framework within which Skelton makes his last ditch attempt to integrate his psyche with the natural world. Guiding is a one-man job, but Hemingway style requires full exertion of Skelton's intellect, intuition and physical strength in mastering fishing equipment and tides, navigating channels and neighboring keys, and sniffing...
This automatic experience is what Dames and other social-oriented groups seeks to repeat for their members. It--and the other groups--try to separate the casual after-dinner bridge games and conversation from their framework and set them up as an end in themselves...