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...Congress ought to content itself with informal understandings as to limits upon the NSC's proper role. Public, media and congressional pressures together with the Tower Panel's scrutiny make it all but certain the NSC staff will have no alternative but to revert to its more traditional limited function. Hiring individuals for the staff who understand and accept this is obviously central. Legislating formal, explicit constraints should be avoided. Just as hard cases tend to make bad law, so specific abuses of public trust ought not necessarily prompt reactions either draconian or permanent...
THIS MAY NOT SEEM so morally heinous, but in fact it is complex form of robbery. But even more important are its effects. Scenario: everybody breaks the rules of Wall Street...chaos ensues...capital is unavailable to allow companies to grow and function, leading to...Economic Breakdown! Well, this may be extreme, but if we decide to let one person get away with breaking the rules, what deterrent is there to stop others...
...tells us something about the person. We want the picture to illustrate the whole story." For this week's Special Report debut, White and Boeth devised new layouts combining photos, symbols and charts, and came up with new caption designs. At TIME, as elsewhere, form most often follows function...
...American Motors assembly plant in Kenosha, Wis., they hired AMC to start building cars like the Chrysler Fifth Avenue there. Chrysler has embraced high-technology equipment in its operations but has made the transition from the old ways at an orderly pace so that the new machines . function well. Boasts Sperlich: "Chrysler seems to be the one domestic company that has learned how to make its robots spray-paint cars instead of each other...
...probably cost $2 billion by 1990. Whether Koop's motive was political or not, his report plunged the nation into a thicket of legal and moral questions. Is it unwise to tell third-graders about anal sex and the connection between sex, AIDS and death? Is it the proper function of a public school to push either abstinence or birth control? Is value-free sex education possible, and if not, whose values will be taught...