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...effort in Congress to weaken the standards of the Clean Air Act [March 1]. As the principal author of the law, I am delighted that interest in this issue is increasing. If anything, we need to expand the statute to cover new threats to our health and our environment-acid rain and airborne toxic pollutants...
...accosts in a bank queue provides the occasion for plenty of libidinous raptures and a good deal of bewilderment. The novella shuttles, thee, back and forth between a blasted landscape that aches for renewal-the highways stretch out against the country like corroded veins and the lakes are acid pools-and an aging man who fears similar, personal deterioration...
...acid test of that sort of causal theory is whether it works at the individual level, whether harsh personal misfortune really causes epiphany or just pragmatic accommodation. The jury is still out on which one 1980's political turnabout represented, but I'll hazard a guess that it was the latter, lesser phenomenon. That verdict's not based on any sophisticated contentions that the nation's temporary economic woes did in Jimmy Carter, or that the Republican resurgence was a mere public relations coup capitalizing on the ineptitude of the incumbents--though there's much in both analyses...
Agnew's acid comment dramatized the ambivalent relationship that almost inevitably grows up between the only two nationally elected officials of our Government. Nixon never considered Agnew up to succeeding him. He occasionally said, only partly facetiously, that Agnew was his insurance policy against assassination. My impression that evening was that Agnew was not exactly heartbroken that his tormentors on the White House staff might be taken down a peg. Through the initial period of Watergate, Agnew remained conspicuously aloof. And when his own purgatory started, the White House, including Nixon, reciprocated by dissociating from him. Agnew...
Furthermore, American refusal to sell arms will have no practical effect on prospective clients since they can obtain arms from many other sources. But because many nations see arms sales as the acid test of friendship in international relations, withholding arms will often be seen as an unfriendly gesture, and can consequently create enemies or clients of enemies...