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THE THINGS WHICH MEN CAN DO

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This address was given by Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield Company, at the dinner that announced the beginning of Caltech's campaign to raise $130 million. For most Americans, I would guess, the energy crisis appeared at first to be just one more of those relatively minor but nonetheless deeply annoying personal trials that seem to be characteristic of our time.  Lining up for gasoline, watching the TV picture shrink during a brownout, reading something in the paper about still another utilities rate hike – when were they going to solve these problems and get things back to normal? But gradually the annoyances began to blend into an emerging reality that was neither small nor temporary.  Something indeed had gone very wrong.  Our economic-social game plan – in essence producing more of everything into the indefinite future – was clearly out of whack.  The frantic rate of material growth that we had come to consider normal was not only exposed as anything but normal bu

THE THINGS WHICH MEN CAN DO Public Relations Normal Public Relations 2 1 2003-06-26T20:12:00Z 2003-06-26T20:12:00Z 5 2513 14327 Caltech 119 28 17594 10.2418 0 0 THE THINGS WHICH MEN CAN DO By T HORNTON F. B RADSHAW This address was given by Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield Company, at the dinner that announced the beginning of Caltech's campaign to raise $130 million. For most Americans, I would guess, the energy crisis appeared at first to be just one more of those relatively minor but nonetheless deeply annoying personal trials that seem to be characteristic of our time. Li

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