Word: agains
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The rivalry between Jimmy Carter and Edward Kennedy broke out again last week in a flurry of sharp words over the President's decontrol of oil prices and his proposed windfall profits tax. The Massachusetts Senator opposed the first decision and ridiculed the second. Carter struck back by calling...
Now Kennedy is pushing for trucking deregulation, a decision that pits him against the 2.2 million-member Teamsters Union. The objective once again is to reduce the role of the agencies, in this case the Interstate Commerce Commission, and open the industry to smaller operators. The opposition is heavy; both...
The brigatisti strike again
Take, Thomas suggests, the case of the nudibranch (a sea slug) and the medusa (a jellyfish) that live in the Bay of Naples. The slug lives with a tiny fragment of the medusa permanently and parasitically attached near its mouth. The vestigial jellyfish apparently is still able to reproduce; its...
He believes that certain attempts to pierce the mystery of things are conducted backward: "Instead of using what we can guess at about the nature of thought to explain the nature of music, start over again. Begin with music and see what this can tell us about the sensation of...