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...sense the coalition is an inherent contradiction for these groups. Special interests abandon conventional party politics when they feel the political consensus does not respond to their needs. Interests become movements because compromise isn't enough: their proponents want to elbow their issues onto the national agenda. Taking the cue from civil rights, they establish their own organizations, constituencies and power bases...
...downing of flight 007 does not mean that we should abandon arms control talks or resort to needless military spending--such as for the MX missile. But it is time we stopped fooling ourselves about the real nature of the U.S.S.R...
Marielito arrests are so numerous and so frequent that police have given up trying to keep track of them. Last year Los Angeles police had to abandon a purse-snatching stakeout across from the park 20 minutes after setting it up. They caught so many offenders that they ran out of arresting officers. Even those who are apprehended show surprising fearlessness and contempt for the law. "For guys used to standing in a four-by-four cell all day, our prisons are like country clubs," observes Detective Alvarez. Many in the police force feel overwhelmed. The situation, says Plainclothes Patrolman...
...this tentatively merging position in the debate may never gain widespread acceptance. In the first place, the majority of American firms are not likely to abandon their apolitical stance in South Africa. While they perceive the possibility of long-term risks to their investments if change does not come, they also believe that painful short-term costs may ensue from antagonizing Pretoria. In addition, because nearly all institutional investors appear to be satisfied with rather straightforward policy guidelines on the South Africa issue--including adherence to the Sullivan Principles, and refusal to make loans directly to the South African government...
...divine destiny to found the Roman Empire, showed the bloody imprint of The Iliad. Furthermore, Aeneas himself, compared with the Homeric heroes Odysseus and Achilles, began to strike many readers as a stick-in-the-mud: pius (Virgil's repeated adjective), the kind of sobersides who would abandon the woman who loves him to her funeral pyre rather than miss out on his mission...