Word: approaches
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Jimmy Carter is winning converts by the millions with his revivalist, meet-the-masses approach to the presidency. About half of the country's voters think better of him now than when he took office. Almost two-thirds feel he can be trusted; 80% like his informal style. A majority applaud him for preaching against Soviet violations of human rights, running an open Administration and making Americans feel better about themselves. Only in one area do voters give Carter low marks: for not taking more vigorous action to curb inflation. These are the major findings of a nationwide phone...
Last spring Koch decided to approach another generally ignored group of poetic prospects-the old. He believed that older people have rich and unexpressed fantasy lives. But even Koch feared that the task would prove too difficult when he saw his first class at the American Nursing Home on Manhattan's grimy Lower East Side. There were about 25 students, most of them arriving slowly in wheelchairs and looking, as Koch recalls, "old, sick, tired, uncomfortable." Many were blind or hard of hearing, and some seemed to be asleep or in pain. Recalls Koch: "For four or five weeks...
Under this approach, a salesman in an adult bookstore could be prosecuted as an active participant in the crime of sexually exploiting the children pictured in the store's magazines. New York Lawyer Charles Rembar, who successfully defended Lady Chatterley's Lover and Fanny Hill against obscenity charges, thinks the seller of child porn is a suitable target: "It is totally unrealistic to say that the people who sell these magazines and films are not involved in the act themselves." Yet other lawyers consider a broad child-abuse law a form of backdoor censorship. Says Ira Glasser...
...forced to meet the 1985 standard of 27.5 m.p.g., it will be subjected to debilitating competition from foreign carmakers, who are far more experienced at making small autos, and threaten a loss of jobs. A better idea: to rely on stiff taxes on big cars. In Europe, that approach, plus high gasoline prices, prompts most buyers to choose gas-miserly small cars, while allowing manufacturers to turn out large, flashy autos for motorists who want and can afford them...
Most significantly, the compromise bill envisions a novel approach to punishment under guidelines to be established by a Federal Sentencing Commission. A narrow range of jail terms and fines is to be set up for each specific crime, and judges will be required to record their reasons for each sentence. Either side can appeal any divergence from the guidelines...