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...Others contend external threats require such restrictions, but fundamental political liberties are nonnegotiable. Every generations has forced its own threats...whether mushroom clouds and evil empires or invading armies and economic crises. To justify unprecedented compromises of traditional civil rights for supposedly unfamiliar dangers launches a journey all too familiar in history. Ultimately, that's a realization both those inside and outside this Administration should remember more often...
Some directors contend that the safety problem has been overblown. "If you take all the thousands of things we do in a year - the car crashes, the underwater stuff and everything else - our safety record is pretty good," insists Hal Needham, director of The Cannonball Run. "There are always going to be accidents...
...that I don't love baseball. It is unquestionably the greatest sport in America, but that's not the point. The point is a 365-day-a-year obsession with an overrated team that's always supposed to contend for yet hasn't won a World Series since...
...last year by Chicago-based W.T. Grimm & Co. That was a nine-year high. "We usually don't like to make predictions," says Grimm's research director, Tomislava Simic. "But I think you can expect to see the trend continue." That alarms some economists and politicians, who contend that takeovers are wasteful and dangerously concentrate corporate power. But many businessmen answer that under current conditions it often makes more financial sense to buy an existing company than to start...
Before ever contemplating a rematch with the Soviets, the U.S. hockey team must contend with the Czechs, the Canadians and the Finns, all seeded higher. Without the warmth of home ice and the chants of jolly jingoists, the Americans may require more than a miracle this time. "They're going to need all the breaks that we got, and more," says Herb Brooks, who coached the gold-medal team. "We had a lot of lucky bounces, and everything seemed to fall into place at the right time...