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...these schools let out for the summer, Harvard's anti-sweatshop leaders say they are satisfied with the progress of their campaign. They say they do not plan to adopt more radical tactics anytime soon...
...expect him to adopt my position on this. He has to be free to strike out in new directions," Epps says...
...suggested they adopt a refugee camp and send it supplies...
...control. For the moment, though, Democrats believe they have hit a bull?s-eye. Not only did they succeed in getting the Republican majority to do a complete about-face on the question of mandatory background checks for gun-show sales, but they also pressed the Senate to adopt a measure against juvenile possession of semiautomatic weapons and a ban on the importation of high-capacity ammunition clips. Even better, from their viewpoint, the Republican mandatory-check system the Senate approved Friday by a one-vote margin contains enough loopholes to keep the Democrats talking all weekend long...
SWITCH TO A "DIET COLA." More formally, adopt a formula for cost of living allowances that increases pensions less rapidly than the consumer price index rises. Inflation has subsided so drastically as to drain the urgency from this proposal. Also, because of changes in the way it is calculated, the CPI no longer overstates inflation by a bit more than one percentage point, as a government panel of economists thought it did two or three years ago. But some overestimation probably remains, and could cause trouble in the hardly impossible event that price increases speed up once more...