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...these policies were put into effect with a stroke of the presidential pen. But many other recommendations in Nixon's energy message depend on congressional action. Most important is a measure that strikes at the root cause of present natural-gas shortages-the regulatory system. Federal regulation has artificially held down gas prices, thereby increasing demand while decreasing incentives for exploration for new reserves. Nixon proposes to remove all "new" natural gas from those price ceilings...
...aesthetic and "compositional" considerations. "Beauty" predominated over both the functional demands of the urban framework and the lifestyle of tenants. In attacking this approach, Newman combines functional considerations with sociological analysis. However sound his design theories may be, he is no sociologist. A few undeveloped digressions into the "root causes" of social ills do more to detract from than to strengthen his theories of defensible space...
Despite such criticisms, the differences between Eastern and Western spirituality may sometimes be more apparent than real, the assumed opposition more a matter of semantics than truth. At the root of both is man's continuing quest for the experience of the transcendent, which must work itself out among the tenuous and sometimes contradictory definitions of God, man and universe. The problem for Americans and others caught up in the West's renewed search for the sacred will be just how and where to strike a fruitful balance: between reason and imagination, between discipline and intuition, between...
Both plans seem incomplete. Without some consolidation such as Brinegar wants, federal aid on the scale contemplated by the ICC could become a massive, endless drain on taxpayers. The root problem of the Northeast lines is that their track system was vastly overbuilt around the turn of the century; in an era of trucks and pipelines it no longer carries enough freight to keep all the lines alive. On the other hand, Brinegar's belief that no federal money will be needed is almost surely wishful thinking. "There is no way for a bankrupt railroad to raise money other...
...arrival of spring in Cambridge. First, and foremost, is the celebrated Frisbee Factor, which, as all physics wonks know, is equal to the number of frisbees (genuine Wham-O's, no cheapie imitations allowed) that one spots floating in the Charles or caught in trees multiplied by the square root of b2 -- 2ac over 4a. If the number derived from this ridiculous, and practically useless formula is more than the number of swimming stories appearing in The Crimson during a one-week span, then spring has definitely arrived-accompanied, with fanfare, by dozens of horrible colds people have picked...