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>Ordered the District of Columbia to pay for gas, water and electricity in inhabited slum houses whose owners had refused to foot the bill. He relied in part on a D.C. statute permitting the mayor to provide for utilities and impose a lien on such property. "Where hundreds of residents...
Several representatives considered the small faculty turnout "marginal" support. "We're tired of screaming we might as well work with what we've got," one woman said. "We've finally concluded that their presence is symbolically important, but not practically important," she added.
Little Appeal. Then, too, there was the military's Project 100,000, launched in 1967 to meet the rising manpower needs dictated by a lack of volunteers and by the many educational deferments. So named for the number of eligible draftees it would encompass each year (but actually a...
Historically, international adversaries have demonstrated a compulsion to seek every gain, however marginal, at the expense of their competitors. In this classical conception, the accumulation of gains over a period of time could alter the balance of power. This may have been realistic in the past. But it is folly...
The semantic aphasia examined so far might be diagnosed as a hysterical compulsion to simplify. Whether pushing fluoride toothpaste or Women's Lib, the rhetoric tends to begin, rather than end, at an extreme. But there is a second, quite different variety of the disease: overcomplication. It damages the...