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"He promises to cut state spending across the board by 5 per cent and then when his aides tell him it's impractical, he promises to "increase productivity,' whatever that means," Sargent says. He attributed the weaknesses in his opponent's program to his "inexperience" and "lack of understanding of...
Unfortunately, a radio telescope that could accomplish the equivalent of what, say, the 200-in. Mount Palomar telescope does optically would have to consist of a dish-shaped structure many miles in diameter-an obviously impractical requirement.
An author of a National Science Foundation report supporting the extension of federal deadlines for air-pollution control standards on automobiles, said yesterday that it would be "unwise and impractical" for Congress to force the automotive industry to adopt currently-designed emission-control devices for next year's cars.
Most experts doubt that "dirty tricks" can be separated from intelligence gathering. Explains Richard Bissell, onetime head of CIA covert operations: "The gathering of information inevitably edges over into more active functions, simply because the process of making covert contacts with high-ranking officials of other nations gives the U.S...
So there was. The new chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers is a longtime friend and disciple of Ayn Rand, the Russian-born author whose novels of rebellious achiever-heroes (We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged) and nonfiction books have sold at least 12 million...