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...giant firm of Baker & Botts. Texas Judge William Blanton remembers when Marshall and another woman lawyer were known disparagingly around the courthouse as "Laverne and Shirley." Now, he says, "I'm sure glad I'm not a young male lawyer having to contend with...
...more than two centuries, most economists have maintained that a system of free trade benefits all countries. But supporters of protectionism contend that "free trade" has become merely an academic abstraction. Reason: governments routinely subsidize key industries to give them an advantage in international trade AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland has made this case by proposing-in jest, but with a serious message-his Free Trade, Antiprotectionism and Antihypocrisy Act of 1983. The law would prohibit Americans from buying imports at prices that have been subsidized in any way by foreign governments or influenced by anything other than free-market...
...tragedy of all this lies in the fact that those people who devote their time and energy to serious progressive organizing must continually contend with this venomous cult which mistakes the sound of its own bullhorns for a mass movement. It's hard to believe that "Spartacists politics are based upon the objective interests of the working class," since the Spartacists oppose the working class in Poland, alienate it in America, and patronize it at Harvard. If the Sparts would step down from Mount Marx for a moment, they would see that all they do is screw things up. Jamin...
...letter explicitly states that only the church's broad moral principles are absolute (for example, the immorality of indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians); it also concedes that Catholics of good will might differ over how these principles apply to the intricacies of nuclear weaponry. But the bishops also contend that their "moral judgment in specific cases, while not binding on conscience, is to be given serious attention and consideration" by America's 50 million Catholics as they develop their own thinking on the morality of nuclear arms. -By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Chicago
Agency workers contend that the cancellation is unfair because they say that the bartending class is well supervised and has had no problems in the past...