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...Lesser Evil. Under Carey's proposal, an Emergency Financial Control Board will be set up to supervise the city finances and try to make outgo match income. The board will consist of Carey, Mayor Abraham Beame, the state and city controllers, and a fifth member appointed by the Governor. Obviously, Carey will take command. The board will stay in existence until the city's accumulated deficit is wiped out, a date that nobody can predict...
...after a default to arrange a schedule for deferred payment of all its debts. If the schedule is accepted by the state supreme court and followed in good faith, creditors' suits would be rejected. Carey's proposal to raise $2 billion or so seemed to be the lesser evil. Said Rohatyn, who played a key role in selling the package to Albany's legislators: "I told them I was bringing them essentially a rotten choice. They were being asked to choose between a default−a known, unquestionable, terrible catastrophe right now−and a complicated long...
...early 1960s, the U.N. launched its much vaunted Development Decade, setting a minimum target of 5% annual growth for what was then called the "lesser-developed countries" or LDCs. In 1970, with many of the first decade's plans still unfulfilled, a Second Development Decade was decreed, and the growth target upped to 6%. As of 1973, however, only a few of the LDCs, most of them oil exporters, had achieved a 6% growth rate. The rest, with a total population of 1.5 billion, kept a meager 2.8% ahead of the population increase...
Thus psychiatry and to a lesser extent the law have both heeded the new gay pleas for tolerance. Society in general remains hostile out of the conviction that its own way of life is mocked or threatened by homosexuality. This view is strongly influenced by Christianity and Judaism, which have traditionally taught that homosexuality is unnatural and its practice sinful. Though all the major churches and branches of Judaism have increasingly come to recognize that the homosexual's dilemma is a matter for pastoral care and understanding, they continue to refuse to ordain avowed homosexuals (with the exception...
...training and temperament put him into an almost impossible position as a writer: he was "an artist who must on no account betray his emotions." But he argues that Kipling struggled bravely and imaginatively to deliver himself whole to his reader, and that in fact his later, lesser-known stories- such parables in anguish as The Gardener and Mary Postgate-were his masterpieces...