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...only that more of the texts be farmed out but also that Israel produce a list of all unpublished texts and who has them. In addition, the magazine will call for access to photographs of all scrolls for interested researchers, who have been kept waiting for decades. Team members contend that this would violate their scholarly rights and that without the analysis of seasoned experts, outsiders would misunderstand what they read...
This so-called quadrant plan has enraged nonwhite opponents, who contend that at-large voting is stacked against minorities because of the higher costs of mounting campaigns. Charges black Councilman Al Lipscomb: "It's a scheme to preserve Anglo business and political power." He and others contend that Strauss, who was twice elected with heavy black and Hispanic support, sold out to the Anglo establishment and then conspired to keep a minority proposal for all single-member districts off the ballot...
...aftermath of the bruising battle, Time Warner will have to contend with up to $14 billion in new debt that was incurred in the takeover. But President N.J. Nicholas denied speculation that the combined company would be forced into a major selloff of assets to bring down the debt level. "We are under no pressure to cut, or sell, or do anything," Nicholas said. "We are going to grow our way out of this...
...pushes ahead with reform, Gorbachev is having to contend not just with strikes but also with constitutional revolt in the independence-minded Baltic states and a wave of ethnic violence in the Caucasus and central Asia. Only < last week bloody rioting that left 20 dead erupted between minority Abkhazians and the Georgian majority in a Black Sea region of western Georgia. Some 3,000 Interior Ministry troops were dispatched to help local police quiet the unrest. But the audacious mining walkout has presented Gorbachev with the most serious labor challenge he has had to face, and casts in graphic terms...
American physicians are teetering on their lofty pedestals. Never have doctors been able to do so much for their patients, and rarely have patients seemed so ungrateful. Today's doctors must contend with ever changing technology, ever threatening lawsuits and a medical-industrial complex second-guessing their every decision. No wonder they often feel as sick as their patients. See LIVING...