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...result of this situation is that a produce hauler, going from California to Boston with a load of lettuce, must legally return empty to pick up his next load; and there aren't many cattle or produce runs west out of New England. Thus a fourth and rather common option is to haul illegal loads and hope not to get caught. The trucker who goes, though, runs the risk of expensive fines...
...education to explain to truckers what the common round was, what the average trucker, at this stage of the game, could care less whether those grapes and lettuce are picked by machines, Mexicans, Negroes, blacks, colored, or whatever they're called, as long as he gets that load. Now, if it could be shown to them that the following things could be accomplished by aligning themselves either with or against the United Farm Workers, then they might come around. But that's an educational process of at least a year, of a lot of articles, and a lot of personal...
...More and more issues get thrown into the political arena, and the political system becomes overloaded with a multiplication of claimants, constituents and contending groups, which results in more frustrations and resentments building up for leaders to deal with." To cope with the load, bureaucracies become fragmented and specialized, sometimes competing with one another, frequently smothering political initiatives. The whole immense mechanism of the central government grows so ponderous that it is virtually immune to necessary change...
...great sorrow just how right she was in that library: Ethics--in their day-to-day application and not just the textbook variety--are excruciatingly complex. The balance between the demands of personal happiness and the demands of bourgeois propriety is well-neigh impossible to attain. Most people load the scales on the side on propriety. Wedding in Blood is a movie about two people living Thoreauian lives of quiet desperation who choose to throw the scales in the other direction, becoming willing murderers along...
...refined by now, though, that it is doubtful anyone could tell for sure. He certainly will not face the kind of complaint that he received from former San Francisco Giant Catcher Tom Haller when Perry was first learning how to wet the ball. "Gay, please cut down on the load," Haller pleaded in the middle of one game. "I'm getting drenched...