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...voters who claim they would pay for environmental improvements balk when the bill is presented. If consumers truly insisted on cleaner air in their individual buying and voting decisions, Detroit and Japan would vie to deliver less polluting cars, and it would not take ten years of struggle to amend the Clean...
With this show and its catalog essay, curator Paul Hayes Tucker, the leading U.S. expert on Monet, has set out to amend a number of received ideas about the artist. Chief among them is Cezanne's opinion: "Only an eye, but my God! What an eye!" In this view, Monet becomes a painter of mere sensation, exquisitely attuned to every sense impression but lacking social point and intellectual fiber...
...have too much power over the republics. He dictates a letter -- one can only call it apocalyptic -- in which he laments that he has "failed the Russian workers for not interfering strongly enough in the so-called issue of autonomy." Lenin concludes that the next Congress of Soviets should amend the plan once more so that the union would retain only its diplomatic and military functions...
...however, rather saddened that among the areas of regional studies slated for an explicit fundraising slot in the new capital campaign only the fields of Middle East and Latin America studies are currently targeted. I want to urge the Harvard administration to amend its plans in this regard, putting the field of African studies on a status of parity with Middle East and Latin American studies. The field of African studies has been badly neglected at Harvard--much more so than Middle East or Latin American studies--and we should not add insult to injury by continuing this neglect...
...Orrin Hatch of Utah, one of two Republicans who unsuccessfully sought to amend the measure, credited Democrats and Kennedy with a victory over the White House in the compromise talks...