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...that the tax increase would have raised. The prospect horrifies county sheriff Brad Gates, who predicts he will have to close the county's crime lab and bomb squad and release prisoners early, and that the D.A. will prosecute only the most serious crimes. Others claim he is an alarmist and that by selling assets like the John Wayne Airport the county can meet its obligations. Claims Supervisor William Steiner: "There is no interest by this board in stiffing the bondholders...
While not so alarmist, Carol Browner, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is also concerned. The Republican legislation, she says, would "create a convoluted maze that could prevent us from doing our jobs" and would also have "a real impact on our ability to protect public health." Had the Contract with America been in place two decades ago, she maintains, federal regulators would not have been able to reduce the use of leaded gasoline, which everyone now agrees is a major health hazard...
...doesn't want to sound alarmist. "We should be a little more careful in advising women what to do unless we are first absolutely convinced," he said in an interview Tuesday. "We are not at that stage...
...Warsaw Pact nations. "Why sow the seeds of distrust?" Yeltsin rhetorically asked. "After all, we are no longer enemies. We are all partners." He warned that NATO's action could force progress against the Cold War to "sink into oblivion." A Clinton Administration official dismissed Yeltsin's criticism as "alarmist...
Roiphe's main thesis is that many contemporary feminists actually undermine their own cause of women's liberation with alarmist proclamations of a "date rape crisis." Their exaggeration of the incidence of date rape reinforces old stereotypes of women as victims, powerless before male aggression. These are the same stereotypes which feminists of the past, including Roiphe's own mother, struggled to eliminate...