Robert Manne
Robert Manne
Robert Michael Manneis an Emeritus Professor of politics and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He is a leading Australian public intellectual...
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We want to be able to understand what happened to him fully, ... And we also want to be able to answer whatever questions the family may have about 'exactly what happened to my son, my brother.'
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Children need most not trained, expert, professional care, but the passionate partiality of parental love. That love is not reproducible, just as to be a mother is not reproducible. Caring is. Mothering cannot be bought or sold, or reproduced by the marketplace. But caring can.
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It's absolutely harder to find seats that airlines are willing to let go for no incremental revenue.
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It's not anything that anybody needs, frankly. The airlines don't need it. Consumers don't need it.
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They've got a back-to-the-future approach. The company historically did very well when it was risk averse. They flew for the military, flew for wholesalers, flew for people who paid up front.
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They performed pretty well on the operating line, ... It was on revenue growth, not on cost cutting.
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There's a fine balance between keeping the pressure on and pushing people over the edge. The judge has to have a light finger on the trigger.
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If Continental does expand, we'll see a me-too response. It's great news for travelers - more low prices.
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It kind of belies the contention that there is a shortage of domestic capital available for the airline industry.
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The injuries are so substantial, he didn't feel anything. He died immediately.
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These are just unbelievable cases. A 60-year mystery locked in ice: It's just unbelievable.
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You can understand the frustration, but all it does is hasten the day of the last paycheck. It's more bravado at this point than it is rational thought.
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To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress and you take seriously the effects of extended hours participation in poor quality care. Those are the facts I begin with.
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Denialism, a concept that was first widely used, as far as I know, for those who claimed that the Holocaust was a fraud, is the concept I believe we should use.