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...this New Paradigm, as some say, only a bright intellectual flourish meant to cover the retreat of the Federal Government from almost everything? "No," says Pinkerton, "it is an intellectual construct to make things work. It is a way of thinking about change and making it rational. I have never said we should cut spending. The conventional wisdom around Washington is that nothing works. Americans don't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Paradigm, New Paradigm | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...addition, Iraqi plans to construct nuclear weapons would go unchecked. Perhaps most important, a complete withdrawal would give a green light to other would-be aggressors...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Saddam, You're No Ho Chi Minh | 12/15/1990 | See Source »

...able to take a random class here or there about the writings of Black women because in that way too many people fall through the cracks. I find it insulting that in order to read in depth the works of several Black women authors I have to construct a special tutorial for myself...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: It's Not Just Ethnic Studies | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

State officials contend that Scheme Z is the only workable way to implement their multibillion dollar plan to construct a new Central Artery underneath Boston, and Secretary of Environmental Affairs John DeVillars is scheduled to rule on the project on January...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: City Hires Laywer to Examine Scheme Z | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

...effort has been impeded because virtually no country capable of manufacturing centrifuges is willing to sell them to Iraq. Baghdad has thus embarked on a strategy of purchasing the technology and materials necessary to construct its own centrifuges. Tales abound of secretive transfers of nuclear- related technology -- some completed and some prevented -- between Western countries and Iraq. Two years ago, a British engineering firm in Coventry, Matrix-Churchill International, was found by British customs to have exported precision lathes and supplied training to Iraqi engineers. There was nothing illegal about either transaction. In March a joint Anglo-American sting operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Will Saddam Get the Bomb? | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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