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...least among large parts of the population." By dismissing the opposition to the war in a flash, Chomsky stands on shaky ground. He fails to explain how the mobilization of anti-war opinion occured, particularly in a country well-versed or so Chomsky claims, in the "engineering of consent...
...documents. In balking the committee. Watt and the Administration are attempting to clip the Congressional prerogative of examining all documents necessary for the purpose of legislation. It is, in effect, another of this imperial Administration's efforts to show that it can rule without the consent of Congress...
...Administration took its first step in the right direction in December when it engineered a settlement with American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). For a quarter of a century, the giant conglomerate had been enmeshed in a legislative and judicial thicket, as a 1956 consent decree forbidding AT&T to manufacture and sell data-processing and other high-technology equipment has grown obsolete in a changing market with foreign competition...
...Rockport beachhouse, where they engaged in some form of sexual activity. On that, much all four agree. The nurse charged that what occurredearly that morning was rape, but all three doctors maintained they were guilty only of poor judgment. They will only admit to having taken part in mutually consented intercourse, albeit imprudent consent...
...allow himself to intrude on his father's domain. Also frightened by any possible interruption of his writing, he never wanted to marry badly enough to go through with it--until his last love, by which times he knew he was dying. And then, appropriately, her parents refused to consent...