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...times. Says Operations Vice President Larry Cena: "You can't just be doing maintenance work when business is good. That's when you need the plant." During the Russian wheat sales boom in 1973, the Santa Fe picked up much extra business from rival roads that lost precious time doing essential repair work to prepare their tracks to handle the traffic...
Meanwhile, precious time has unfortunately been lost in the settlement of international problems, which may prove more formidable and vital than ephemeral and passing internal squabbles and disputes...
...This is a country wherein one's own religious faith should not be a matter of prejudice or concern. The ability of Jews, Catholics, Baptists, even atheists to work in harmony with one another in our nation, based on a system of religious pluralism, is one that is precious to me." Later Carter added that he opposed federal aid to parochial schools and favored the Supreme Court's ban on religious prayer in the public schools-two stances with which the majority of U.S. Jewry concur...
...Organizing ability. The deployment of money, staff and the candidate's own precious time through a 31-primary season is a real test of planning skills, grasp of detail and decisiveness...
Candidates in a national campaign are, of course, pressed to state their views on an hourly basis, often with precious little chance to weigh them. In this case, the President's views may not stand up in court-at least if his Justice Department's arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court prevail. Among the cases still on the Supreme Court's docket is an appeal from a decision against two Virginia private schools that refuse to accept black students. Two federal courts have already ruled against the schools (and Ford's position) on 13th Amendment grounds...