Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...able to control a small chunk of the world; had she read Walden before her departure, she could have saved enormous amounts of time and money. For Thoreau's point, never stated outright but implied in both Walden and the essay on Civil Disobedience, is that control is undesirable; instead that happy co-existence of man and nature is both the only hope and the best hope of man. "That government is best which governs least," Thoreau said--and by extension on to the banks of the little lake that served as his home for a year, that...
...sense, Cunningham has become a role model--not for the path successful women might pursue, but instead for the treatment women in business can expect. For three weeks one of the leading female executives in the nation, Cunningham resigned as a Bendix Corporation vice president because innuendoes that her "meteoric" rise had benefited from a close personal relationship with Bendix's chairman made it impossible for her to remain. Meanwhile, William Agee, the chairman--and the man responsible for the promotion decision under fire--has suffered embarrassment but remains secure in his post...
...blunt question from a Nashville high school student to the President of the U.S. last week aptly summed up the conundrum of Jimmy Carter's floundering campaign. From the outset, the President and his advisers had meant to make Ronald Reagan the man the issue in the race. Instead, with only three weeks to go, it was Carter who was the issue, and he had only himself to blame. Time and again, Carter's strident personal attacks had crossed the line of propriety for a presidential campaign. When he did it again last week, charging that Reagan...
...experts to draft a more credible program. They could not talk Reagan into stretching out the tax cuts, but they did succeed in changing the whole rationale for them. Now it is admitted that the rate reductions themselves will not necessarily stimulate enough new revenues to offset the loss. Instead, a strict curb on new spending, plus the natural growth of the economy, would provide enough margin to permit the tax measure. Reagan accepted this substantial alteration without much complaint. However he got there, and however little he understood the trip, he arrived at a position that, while still highly...
...think time proved I was right." When he was asked why he gave the Panama Canal to the Communists, Church shot back: "We didn't give it to the Communists. We may have saved it from going Communist by making Panama a working partner. We made a friend instead of an enemy...