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...industry contend that Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, who is FAA Administrator Donald Engen's boss, has been cowed by the White House Office of Management and Budget into holding these assigned funds in reserve against the federal deficit. "Hogwash!" says OMB Director James Miller III. "If I had a bias, it would be toward air safety." Unfortunately, that bias has yet to be translated into equipment that might make the nation's crowded "birdcages" safer...
Your article concerning drug abuse among sports figures (SPORT, Aug. 25) shows the ills of our society. Athletes should learn to take responsibility for their actions. In taking drugs, Basketball Star Len Bias and Cleveland Browns Safety Don Rogers were acting of their own free will. Choice and freedom are the backbone of our society, and we should not hold others, including those who supplied Bias and Rogers with cocaine, liable for their self-inflicted misjudgments...
...contraption to his mouth. The voice-over cites statistics on the use of something called "crack," speaks of billions spent this year alone on illegal drugs, of the alarming rise of this, the terrifying appearance of that. Dissolve. Green fields in Colombia. Dissolve. Bolivia. John Belushi. Len Bias. Dissolve. Dissolve...
...central heat or running water. Its narrow curriculum of required courses involved largely the recitation of memorized texts, many of them in Latin. "No one took Harvard College seriously," said Henry Adams, '58. "It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile...
...bias is toward what he called "westist: the placing of certain values on a pedestal" and "testist: if it can't be tested, then forget it," Gardner said...