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Field archeology consists simply of tracing layers of occupational remains. The key to recognizing changes in the settlement or function of an area is differentiating between the various soil levels according to their color, composition, texture and topographical location. Complications are frequent, and disturbances of a lower level by a subsequent occupation are extremely common. For instance, medieval house foundations or wells may cut through underlying Saxon or even Roman levels to complicate the dating of all three inhabitations. Or materials of early civilizations might be robbed by later ones, and it is not unusual to find Roman tiles worked...
Buildings like Currier House need to be reexamined. Pepper's own words about her sculpture in Boston's City Hall Plaza emphasize this point. "The work should be in dialogue with the people around it. I believe this is a prime function of art in a world increasingly hostile to human life. With the pollution of the environment, the atomizing of the human spirit, it is increasingly necessary that modern art, especially public art, have some relationship with people--that is with the world of common experience...
Domesick explained yesterday that picketers have attempted to "dissuade" customers from entering. Julian concurred that the function of picketing is "persuasion" and that this is not legal...
Alternatives. Some considerable reforms could alleviate the worst difficulties while preserving the grand jury's real virtues. To begin with, its function of approving indictments sought by prosecutors might be curtailed. In some states, D.A.s can already bypass the grand jury, and simply issue an indictment themselves or go before a judge for a preliminary hearing; at such hearings the defense can attend and cross-examine any witnesses. The process is much fairer. Even a few prosecutors, notably Philadelphia's Arlen Specter and Houston's Carol Vance, favor it as a way to speed the pretrial process...
...polled thought that too much was spent on advertising, though almost all of them agreed that it is essential to marketing. Many major firms, including PepsiCo, Pfizer and General Foods, are keeping costs down by dividing some of their work among small agencies that specialize in a single advertising function-market research, space buying, copywriting, artwork. These shops work for negotiated fees and have had a major impact on full-service agencies in one key respect: to keep their clients happy, most large agencies have also had to offer separate "à la carte" services for a usually modest negotiated...