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...Soviet threat, the U.S. needs every high-tech weapon system it can develop. The Pentagon budget will still be cut, but perhaps by as little as $10 billion, obliterating any chance that a substantial peace dividend will help relieve pressure on the government deficit. "Every politician will cite the gulf crisis as a justification for his favorite weapon," says Lawrence Korb, a former Pentagon official now at the Brookings Institution in Washington. For example, Senator Robert Dole has already argued that Iraq's move proves the need for the Stealth bomber, a plane less useful in the gulf than...
There is some evidence supporting the contention that parental-involvement laws restrict access to abortions. In a brief, opponents of the Minnesota law, which took effect in 1981, cite a study conducted between 1980 and 1984 indicating that the birthrate for 15-to-17-year-olds in Minneapolis rose 38.4%, while the birthrate for 18-to-19-year-olds, not covered by the law, rose only 0.3%. In the 20 months after Massachusetts put its parental-consent law into effect in 1981, 1 of every 3 teenage abortions was done out of state, while those within the state dropped...
...whether the parents want to be involved. Of the teenagers who came before him, Garrity says, "To a person, they were scared to death, but they did know what they wanted." An alcoholic mother, a drug-addicted father, an absent or neglectful parent are some of the reasons teenagers cite for not going home for help. The fact that only half the minors in Minnesota live with both biological parents persuaded Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to agree with the more liberal Justice John Paul Stevens on the need for judicial bypass...
Some faculty members cite the promotion of junior faculty members such as King as proof of the effectiveness of outoging Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence's five-year-old plan to improve the tenure chances of Harvard's untenured faculty...
CULTURE. The most common black complaint is that Korean merchants treat them rudely. Some shopkeepers concede that the complaints are often valid but cite cultural conflicts. Black youngsters think nothing of saying "Hey, man!" to store owners accustomed to being treated deferentially in their homeland. Koreans, who highly respect their elders, do not joke back...