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...central problem is that few people believe Big Business or Gigantic Government. Volcker of the Fed and Shapiro of Du Pont plus others meet in a posh resort in Hot Springs to speak of "easy money" and "the sooner we suffer the pain, the sooner we will be through it all." It would be more believable if it came from a motel in Davenport, Iowa...
...succeeded where others failed because, Chavez says, "We told the growers, 'OK, if you bring in strikebreakers, we'll boycott you.' So the farm workers have turned to what Chavez calls "our court of last resort, the American people," with an international boycott of Red Coach iceberg lettuce...
...Deal and even the 1960s. We reject the idea that Government knows best across the board, that public planning is inherently superior or more effective than private action. There is now a growing consensus, which I share, that Government intervention in the economy should come as only a last resort...
...problems that are either too big or too vague to be handled by normal administrative channels. The group's membership, drawing together the major officers from both Harvard and Radcliffe, separates it from the run-of-the-mill University committee. The Joint Policy Committee is, in essence, the last resort--the place where the buck may finally stop on the long and tortuous administrative path. "It's really there to settle thorny problems." says senior corporation member Francis H. Burr '35 who sits on the committee. "I like to think of it as a safety valve...
...Edison saw that was not enough. One of his less noted sayings pointed the way not only for inventors but for all those who work with their brains. He plastered his labs with a quotation from Sir Joshua Reynolds: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking," to which Edison added one of his own: "The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasures in life." A most unorthodox and in many ways unattractive thinker, Edison nonetheless multiplied...