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In Essence | Summer 1992
Bureaucracy:Grow It Must

Jonathan in Gov- Grow It Must ~~n~(Mar. 2300 Ste. Washington,

1992), N St. N.~l., 760, D.C.

Politicians with their eyes on the mayor's office or the governor's mansion often promise to cut overgrown governments down to size. For all such campaign talk, however, state and local government employment--which now stands at more than 15 million--has risen about 20 percent over the last dozen years. [The ranks of the 3.1 million federal civilian employees, by contrast, increased by only 0.6 percent in...

In Essence | Summer 1992
Ike's Hidden Hand On Civil Rights

Jonathan Walters, in GOV-Bureaucracy: erning (Mar. 1992), 2300 N St. N.W., Ste. 760, Washington, D.C.Grow It Must 20037.
Politicians with their eyes on the mayor's office or the governor's mansion often promise to cut overgrown governments down to size. For all such campaign talk, however, state and local government employment-which now stands at more than 15 million-has risen about 20 percent over the last dozen years. [The ranks of the 3.1 million federal civilian employees, by contrast, increased...

In Essence | Summer 1992
Ronald Reagan,Peacenik

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tice Earl Warren and Justice William Brennan. According to biographer Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower privately said on a number of occa- sions that he wished the Supreme Court had upheld Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) instead of overturning it in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 decision declaring segrega- tion in public schools unconstitutional. After Eisenhower left office, he frequently said that his biggest mistake had been appointing War- ren to the court. For...

In Essence | Summer 1992
A New Munich In Yugoslavia?

James E. ~oodby, in The

A New Munich

Washington Quarterly (Spring 1992). Center for Strategic and In Yugoslavia? International Studies, 1800 K St. N.W., Ste. 400, Washington,
D.C. 20006.

After Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in June 199 1, the Serbian-led Yugo- slav Army, supported Serbian militias, swept into Serbian-populated areas of Croatia, and civil war broke out between Serbs and Croats. For months, the European Community (EC) tried to stop the fighting-but without succe...

In Essence | Summer 1992
The Transformation Of Labor Day

James E. ~oodby, in The

A New Munich

Washington Quarterly (Spring 1992). Center for Strategic and In Yugoslavia? International Studies, 1800 K St. N.W., Ste. 400, Washington,
D.C. 20006.

After Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in June 199 1, the Serbian-led Yugo- slav Army, supported Serbian militias, swept into Serbian-populated areas of Croatia, and civil war broke out between Serbs and Croats. For months, the European Community (EC) tried to stop the fighting-but without suc...

In Essence | Summer 1992
The Limits of Small Business

1886, Labor Day celebrations were taking place throughout the country.
The rising labor movement had little diffi- culty persuading local, state, and (in 1894) na- tional legislators to add Labor Day to their offi- cial calendars. But few employers were eager to give workers the day off. "Consequently, for nearly two decades Labor Day was a virtual general strike in many cities," Kazin and Ross write. "In New York City, where many shops and factories remained open during the early...

In Essence | Summer 1992
Why There Was No Trickle Down

some as likely sources for economic rejuvena- tion."
Until the mid-19th century, small businesses were the norm in the United States, with thou- sands of them producing and distributing most of the country's goods and services. But 1914, one-third of U.S. industrial workers la- bored in firms with 500 or more employees, and another third worked in companies with 100 or more. Yet small firms-by developing market niches or supplying goods to larger in- dustrial firms-remained significant right...

In Essence | Summer 1992
Does Dating Work?

Martin King Whyte, Does Dating Work? in Society (Mar.-Apr. 1992), Rutgers-The State Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.

The history of courtship in America begins with the Puritans (enough said), proceeds to the modest sexual revolution of the 18th century and the counter-revolution of the 19th, and then arrives, around the turn of the century, at the familiar practice called "dating." According to University of Michigan sociologist Martin King Whyte, however, all those centuries of ro- m...

In Essence | Summer 1992
Getting Ahead at Community Colleges

Martin King Whyte, Does Dating Work? in Society (Mar.-Apr. 1992), Rutgers-The State Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
The history of courtship in America begins with the Puritans (enough said), proceeds to the modest sexual revolution of the 18th century and the counter-revolution of the 19th, and then arrives, around the turn of the century, at the familiar practice called "dating." According to University of Michigan sociologist Martin King Whyte, however, all those centuries of ro-...

In Essence | Summer 1992
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baccalaureate degrees, reports Manhattan Col- lege sociologist Kevin Dougherty. These stu- dents tend to be less academically skilled, less ambitious, and from poorer families than stu- dents entering four-year institutions. But sev- eral studies have found that even students with similar disadvantages who begin at four-year schools are more likely to wind up receiving bachelor's degrees than their counterparts at community colleges.
The reason for the difference, a...

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