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When a liberal Democratic President and a favorite of the Republican right concur, the First Law of Politics kicks in: If everyone agrees on something, it must be wrong (see the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, the nuclear freeze). I am all for values, family and otherwise, but the last people who should be offering us moral guidance are the polticians...
Alar on apples, radon in homes, asbestos in schools. the U.S. appears to ricochet from one environmental crisis to another, with the result that policy aimed at reducing risks to human health frequently appears to make little economic or scientific sense. Even some environmentalists concur that decisions to rip asbestos out of school buildings were probably ill considered. In many cases, sealing the dangerous fibers in place would have provided a more prudent and less costly remedy. Similarly, while no one denies that homes with high levels of radon pose a health hazard requiring prompt attention, what about houses with...
...concur to the extent that the faculty have acted inconsistently in their application of the University's 1985 non-discrimination policy, which they recently used to censure ROTC. Their failure to act similarly with respect to Radcliffe raises the question of whether discrimination against men is more politically palatable than that against homosexuals...
...series of verbal and money transactions that implicate Gillooly but not Harding. All three co-conspirators say they met with Gillooly in Portland in late December; two of them say a price of $6,500 was set for Stant and Smith to injure Kerrigan. Eckardt and Smith concur that Smith was paid $2,000 on the spot, with bills supplied by Gillooly. Gillooly's bank records indicate that he made three withdrawals totaling $9,000 between Dec. 27 and Jan. 6. Western Union records show that on Jan. 5 and 6 Eckardt wired two payments to Smith. Investigators are trying...
Though professors concur on the agreement'sadvantages, they disagree on the precedent itestablishes for U.S. trade relations with LatinAmerican nations...