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Finally, a word about my "obedience", whatever that means. Father Collins never once told or asked me to refrain from undertaking any part of my ministry. Whenever he offered critical advice to me in my work I believe he did so as a friend, without ever limiting my freedom to do what I thought best. (Rev.) Richard J. Shmaruk...
...Long Bar of Meikle's Hotel in Salisbury, white Rhodesians were clinking bottles and roaring the merry refrain of Land of Hope and Glory. From the African bar at the other corner of the building came a throaty Nkosi Si-kelele Afrika (God Bless Africa). "There you have it," said a Rhodesian businessman as he listened to both. "Take a man from one of those bars, push him into the other, and it would be like throwing in a hand grenade. Britain and the rest of the world can do what they like, but this is what Rhodesia...
Speculation on the teams to join defending champion Harvard in the New England district playoffs of the NCAA Intercollegiate Soccer Championships is altered after the announcement by Tufts, Williams, Wesleyan, and Springfield to refrain from national post-season competition...
...that, while relatively small, had a local monopoly of bread sales. But for the most part, it would concentrate its fire on the largest unions and biggest companies. A POWER TO FINE. The board would try to operate with a minimum of compulsion. Many unions and companies would voluntarily refrain from posting outsize increases, out of fear that the board would arouse the wrath of the public against them. Okun hopes that in practice most would seek the board's guidance informally before negotiating wage increases or raising prices. As a last resort, the board could forbid...
...whose goals are selfish instead of humanitarian. The problem, then, is to design a culture that can, theoretically, survive; to decide how men must behave to ensure its survival in reality; and to plan environmental influences that will guarantee the desired behavior. Thus, in the Skinnerian world, man will refrain from polluting, from overpopulating, from rioting, and from making war, not because he knows that the results will be disastrous, but because he has been conditioned to want what serves group interests...