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...such problems multiply, Latin Americans -- and even some U.S. officials -- have come to question the Reagan Administration's commitment to fighting the drug blight. Despite Nancy Reagan's much vaunted Just Say No campaign, the Noriega indictments and the Kerry hearings suggest that the Reagan Administration has selectively ignored some narcotics dealing. Says Representative Larry Smith, a Florida Democrat who heads a congressional task force on narcotics: "You can't tell people 'Just Say No' at home, and then turn a blind eye on the diplomatic front...
...profession, anyway: in the publishing marketplace, traditional history still fares quite well. In the work of historians as diverse as, say, Daniel Boorstin and Barbara Tuchman, the traditional practices of storytelling, political analysis and moral judgment are all flourishing. But if the fads of the new history continue to blight the academic scene, Himmelfarb argues, we will be threatened with a profound loss: "We will lose not only the unifying theme that has given coherence to history, not only the notable events, individuals, and institutions that have constituted our historical memory and our heritage . . . but also a conception...
...INSTANCE, if we were to mandate daily marijuana doses for fundamentalist preachers, television solicitation would no longer blight our airwaves. Men such as Jimmy Swaggart would take the pulpit, toke piously from a heavenly bong, and for the first time offer the congregation a truthful speech without the malicious undertones that characterize "normal" behavior...
WHEN I'M really in the mood to waste some shoe leather I'll make my way over to Central Square. On the map Central Square is shown as part of Cambridge, but in reality it is a separate fief, administered by the Federal Bureau of Urban Blight; Cambridge proper actually ends at the eastern end of the Mt. Auburn St. used book store zone, a retail no man's land where no one ever ventures...
...dollar's value, though, could prove to be less than a cure for that malaise. As the dollar falls and import prices rise, U.S. inflation could be rekindled. That in turn could lead to an increase in U.S. interest rates, which would hardly stimulate the economy and might blight the stock market's further advance. As if to underline that possibility, Volcker warned that it was "not sensible" to expect the dollar's plunge alone to cure the U.S. trade problem. After weeks of Wall Street euphoria in which the dollar's fall hardly seemed to matter, it appeared that...