Word: breaking
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...week ago, the sad ending of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's mission to Moscow seemed to herald a critical break in Soviet-American relations-an end to SALT, perhaps, if not an end to detente. The Soviets had rebuffed as unacceptable new strategic arms proposals offered by the Carter Administration. In addition, there was a continuing volley of and-American rhetoric in the Soviet press and the angry diatribe by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (TIME, April...
...Stanley Pottinger, assistant Attorney General for civil rights under Presidents Nixon and Ford. Last year FBI Director Clarence Kelley assured Congress that all bureau abuses had been uncovered. But then a Socialist Workers Party lawsuit produced new, damning evidence of repeated "black bag jobs," or illegal break-ins, by FBI agents in several cities. Pottinger was permitted to assemble a task force of Justice Department lawyers and FBI agents to probe bureau excesses, starting in New York. The inquiring agents were quickly labeled "the dirty dozen" by their colleagues. They discovered a detailed list of extraordinary activities by agents, many...
America, the protectionists argue, is living in a free-trade fool's paradise; other nations casually resort to a variety of ruses to keep out unwanted goods. No fewer than 850 nontariff barriers have been uncovered that do not necessarily break the letter of the law of free trade but certainly tax its spirit. Foreign governments may subsidize export industries by waiving taxes or granting easy bank loans. They may impose cumbersome safety standards, customs procedures and packing and labeling regulations. Japan, for example, insists on its own chemical analysis of imported perfumes and cosmetics; the delays in completing...
...easier to organize your information for someone else than for yourself." In a typical course, 15 to 30 students meet with an instructor twice a week for 90-minute sessions. The core of the program is a 331-page workbook outlining a series of laborious drills that break the writing process into simple steps...
...gizmos have been widely criticized by lawmen as "licenses to speed." Says Mississippi Public Safety Commissioner James Finch: "My feeling about any device used to circumvent or break our speed laws is that it should be made illegal." Though several states have outlawed Fuzzbusters, the bans have been struck down as an unconstitutional limitation of the public's right to receive any electronic signal on the air. Legal or not, more than 500,000 of the detectors have been sold so far. and over 1 million may well be in use by the end of the year...