21. such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners: and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business.

　　22. towns like bournemouth and east bourne sprang up to house large comfortable classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders meeting to dictate their orders to the management.

　　23. the shareholders as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his influence on the relations of capital and labor was not good.

　　24. the paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away.

　　25. among the many shaping factors, i would single out the country's excellent elementary schools: a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the american genius for nonverbal, spatial thinking about things technological.

　　26. as eugene ferguson has pointed out, a technologist thinks about objects that can not be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal process……the designer and the inventor……, are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist.

　　27. robert fulton once wrote, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheel, etc, like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea.

　　28. in the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. he describes their programs and, tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise.

　　29. on the dust jacket of this fine book, stephen jay gould says: this book stands for reason itself. and so it does-and all wound be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.

　　30. after six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, australia's northern territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.

　　31. some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the australian medical association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. but the tide is unlikely to turn back.

　　32. in australia- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.

　　33. there are, of course, exceptions. small——minded officials, rude waiters, and ill mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the us. yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment.

　　34. we live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances （drugs） is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.

　　35. dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant with drawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.

　　36. is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers? senator robert dole asked time warner executives last week. you have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?

　　37. the test of any democratic society, he wrote in a wall street journal column', lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be……

　　38. during the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's stockholders meeting, levin asserted that music is not the cause of society's ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the bronx, new york, who uses rap to communicate with students.

　　39. much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as steering the economy to a soft landing of a touch on the brakes , makes it sound like a precise science. nothing could be further from the truth.

　　40. economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in britain and the united states, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially america's, have little productive slack. 20. the change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large profess signal element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders.

　　21. such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners: and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business.

　　22. towns like bournemouth and east bourne sprang up to house large comfortable classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders' meeting to dictate their orders to the management.

　　23. the shareholders as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his influence on the relations of capital and labor was not good.

　　24. the paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away.

　　25. among the many shaping factors, i would single out the country's excellent elementary schools: a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the american genius for nonverbal, spatial thinking about things technological.

　　26. as eugene ferguson has pointed out, a technologist thinks about objects that can not be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal process……the designer and the inventor……, are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist.

　　27. robert fulton once wrote, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheel, etc, like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea.

　　28. in the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. he describes their programs and, tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise.

　　29. on the dust jacket of this fine book, stephen jay gould says: this book stands for reason itself. and so it does-and all wound be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.

　　30. after six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, australia's northern territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.

　　31. some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the australian medical association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. but the tide is unlikely to turn back.

　　32. in australia- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.

　　33. there are, of course, exceptions. small——minded officials, rude waiters, and ill mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the us. yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment.

　　34. we live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances （drugs） is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.

　　35. dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant with drawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.

　　36. is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers? senator robert dole asked time warner executives last week. you have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?

　　37. the test of any democratic society, he wrote in a wall street journal column, lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be……

　　38. during the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's stockholders meeting, levin asserted that music is not the cause of society's ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the bronx, new york, who uses rap to communicate with students.

　　39. much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as steering the economy to a soft landing of a touch on the brakes , makes it sound like a precise science. nothing could be further from the truth.

　　40. economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in britain and the united states, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially america's, have little productive slack.