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...parties can settle, they will not only avoid the costly and arduous process of appeals but may also avert the possibility of a new, and possibly ideologically different, administration assuming control of the government's side of the case should it continue past the 2000 presidential election. Microsoft's political lobbying efforts have intensified over the past year, and it would be disappointing to see the judicial process interrupted by politics...
...vaccine is our only real hope to avert a disaster unparalleled in medical history. A concerted research effort was launched three years ago in the U.S., and hints of promising strategies are emerging from experiments in monkeys. But even if an AIDS vaccine is developed before 2025, it will require an extraordinary effort of political will among our leaders to get it to the people who need it most...
...recognizing the health hazards of smoking, Philip Morris and other tobacco companies may just be attempting to avert legal action such as that undertaken by many state attorneys general in recent years. Lawsuits since 1995 have sought to make cigarette makers reimburse the costs of smoking-related health care, arguing that companies had intentionally misled smokers into thinking that cigarettes were safe. Openly stating the risks now could free companies of any charges of misrepresentation in the future...
...avert devolving into a sub-Nicholson Baker riff, we can shift into lamentation. Sad, sad, sad: New is better; pop culture is disposable and laughs at its ancestors; masturbatory fashionistas dictate and bulletproof their fopaganda. Where can we access the past, without fear of reprisal or dismissal? Ad firms parallel the AI race for the perfect chess computer, in their appropriation of our precious individuality and irony, engineering the perfect corporate android to convince us to match the image in the mirror--the billboard, the TV screen--the one now and forever, until the next profit margin rolls around...
...Monday that "proceeding to a vote under these circumstances would severely harm the national security of the United States, damage our relationship with our allies, and undermine our historic leadership over 40 years, through administrations Republican and Democratic, in reducing the nuclear threat." But postponing the vote won't avert that danger. Whether the Senate votes or decides to table the motion is irrelevant to the governments of such newly nuclear states as India and Pakistan. What matters is that the U.S. has failed to ratify the CTBT. Postponing a Senate vote means abandoning a key foreign policy goal, which...