Word: coms
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...issue, questioned the efficacy and even the constitutional! ty of some of his solutions. "You don't solve the problem by eliminating procedural safeguards," said Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar. He and others point to studies showing the great difficulty of predicting which suspects will actually com mit additional offenses if released while awaiting trial. Critics of the speech also objected to the idea of permitting convicts to file habeas corpus petitions only for miscarriages of justice, and not for technical errors. One reason: such petitions account for only a small portion of a court's work load...
What really riles Hanson is the Government regulations that hamper his ranching. "Big Brother has got his arm solidly around you," he says. The Environmental Protection Agency will not let him use weed spray on his feed crops com animal poisons against the coyotes that prey on his calves. He complains that the Bureau of Land Management will not plow back more of the ranchers' grazing fees into improving the range, and that he must seek permission from the Army Corps of Engineers to build a culvert along a stream on his own property. "It's rules...
Walter Mitty moguls weary of monotonous board contests can amuse themselves with Energy Czar ($14.95), which plugs into an Atari computer game set. Each "czar" formulates his own energy policy, while the com puter spews out useful information. Players do not win the game by creating the best policy or making the most money. The victor is the one who scores highest in the public opinion polls...
Volkswagen's Rabbit faces tough com petition from new American subcompacts like the Ford Escort, and sales of the U.S.-made Rabbit dropped 26% in November...
Scottie Templeton is one such com pulsive performer. To him, silence is gelding and only two sounds are pleasing: his own voice and his listener's laughter. As the central character, comic relief, raisonneur and raison d'être of Bernard Slade's play Tribute, Scottie kept the jokes flowing as his world collapsed like a burlesque banana's baggy pants. On Broadway, as incarnated by Jack Lemmon, Scottie was a sympathetic soul. With the footlights acting as a DMZ between character and playgoer, Scottie could be abstracted and romanticized: he was the fatally ill trouper...