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MADD National President Katherine Prescott said in a statement that the law will lead to more alcohol-related car accidents and signals "a huge step backward in our fight against drunk driving and underage drinking...

Author: By Tara I. Chang, | Title: Lower Drinking Age Has Minors Speaking Cajun | 3/16/1996 | See Source »

...cigarettes and booze. "Those were tough, this is easy,/And it feels so good to say,/ Forgetting you is not that hard to do,/I've done it a thousand times a day." Loveless performs the number at dirge tempo--if it were any slower it would be going backward--dramatizing all the dread resolve and the lingering uncertainty in saying no to a bad habit. Denial is easy; refusal is hard. And the song is great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SHE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...predict whether Russia will go backward, it is first necessary to recognize where it has progressed. Since 1991, when Yeltsin became President, and 1992, when the process of change began, the achievements in reforming key areas of the economy have been startling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: UNREFORMABLE REFORM | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...election and roll the economy back to state-controlled socialism. "The people who said the reforms could never be reversed are coming up short," says Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Harvard Russian Research Center. "At the moment, everyone's in a race to see who can go backward the fastest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: UNREFORMABLE REFORM | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

Will Russia go backward? The country has undergone profound changes over the past four years. Despite the understandable fears for the future, some of Russia's reforms have become so embedded that dislodging them would be difficult. As Zyuganov himself has said, "We understand that if we start taking factories back, there's going to be shooting from Murmansk to Vladivostok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: UNREFORMABLE REFORM | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

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