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All Things in Moderation

From March 20, 1990. This morning on National Public Radio (NPR), I heard a piece centered on industrial phsychology and its attempt to identify the strengths and weaknesses of individual employees, and to match the employee to the job to enhance productivity. The admission has been made that certain people are good at one thing but not at another. This is in contradistinction to the 70's and 80's claim that "you can be what you want to be.'   Probably, this reaches even into the 50's and 60's for in my own memory the truism is what guided many of us into our chosen paths and certainly kept us to them - once begun.  This new attitude is a window in a larger screen.  For example, "We can tame and control nature to our own ends."  This, a familiar cry from decades past, has been abandoned.  For women in the 80's, "You can have it all," have realized that choices must be made.  Having it all is not possible. The new attitude (actually