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...thought that goes, "If you have something to say, speak up; once you have started, say it right to the end." Nonetheless, renegades don't have it easy in The People's Republic. During the Cultural Revolution of the late '60s, Teng Hsiao-ping seems to have run afoul of Chairman Mao, perhaps by criticizing the regime unconstructively--that is, by venturing beyond practical issues and raising more fundamental questions about Party ideology. Teng's momentary lapse into a counter-revolutionary attitude may even now be taken more seriously than his position as deputy prime minister would indicate...
...does Peter Fonda get himself into these things? He and his buddy Warren Gates-reunited again after Fonda's own The Hired Hand (1971) -appear as vacationers run afoul of witchcraft out in the Texas boonies. Members of a cult that plays footsie with Satan dress up in hooded sheets and build a bonfire near a gnarled old tree. Then they get right down to business and sacrifice a victim. This gives the boys across the ravine-Fonda and Gates-a mighty eyeful and a good scare. They climb back aboard their $36,000 motor home and hightail...
...soft on criminals," I also think that psychiatry and psychology have progressed far enough so that we're able to tell those who should never be let out, once we can put our finger on them. We might even be able to do this before they run afoul of the law. Some people because of serious mental problems have just as much a constitutional right to be kept in custody as we on the outside have the right to have them kept from...
Commercial banks are trying to do the same thing, but they face a restriction that S and Ls do not. U.S. Comptroller of the Currency James Smith ruled last December that banks could set up terminals without running afoul of laws in twelve states that limit branch banking, but last month specified that the terminals could not be put in locations more than 50 miles away from a bank's main or branch office. In addition, small bankers, worried that big banks and S and Ls will win away depositors, are backing two bills in Congress that would severely...
Japan's Chisso Corp. sold $200 million worth of petrochemicals last year, is effectively managed, and should by any standards be doing well. But Chisso may soon have to shut down. It is one of several major Japanese businesses that have run afoul of a three-year-old government principle: companies that cause individuals any physical harm or financial loss through environmental pollution must compensate them...