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...contained, pressurized neutron bomb. But it is still a matter of who is the better man, the most commanding man, and though DeNiro is a celibate priest, he is the winner. He has that intangible, the almost spiritual worldliness of great character, of a Caesar or a Kennedy. It compels everyone he meets. This priest is not only a man of the world but a champion of the world. He's always at the center, controlled, impeccable, graceful. Though his gestures are small, disciplined, and almost delicate, they somehow compel, whether he is saying the High Mass or taking...
...free marketplace. The White House has canceled regulations that would have required industries to post a list of chemicals their workers are exposed to on the job, made drug firms spell out the possible risks of each medicine they sell, and now plans to cancel a regulation that would compel hotdog makers to note if their products contain ground bone. The Car Book, a popular 68-page pamphlet that lists the safety features and maintenance costs of 81 U.S. and foreign automobiles, is not being reprinted even though it is one of the most successful publications ever offered...
...clear that it would use its veto if they were mentioned. Instead, the approved resolution "strongly condemns" Israel for its raid on the reactor and urges it to pay damages to Iraq, which was "entitled to appropriate redress for the destruction it has suffered." There is nothing that could compel Israel to make such restitution, however, and Blum had already told the council that his government would not pay Iraq "a brass farthing" for destroying the reactor...
...People have to image that it is themselves and their children...this is the penultimate image that must compel social action against the nuclear arms race...
Inter-service rivalries continually compel the upgrading of the strategic nuclear "triad" (bombers, land-based missiles, and submarine-launched missiles). Although the Navy already has a perfectly adequate Poseidon submarine force with more than 5000 virtually invulnerable nuclear warheads, this soon will be augmented by the astronomically expensive Trident submarines. (Each sub, without any missiles, is estimated to cost $1.2 billion...