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Reagan had Republican leaders in the Senate on his side in opposing a massive lobbying effort by the nation's banks to repeal the withholding of 10% of income gained from interest and dividends. He had vowed to veto any such repeal bill, accusing the bankers of "great distortion...
CONCERN FOR the well-being of animals cannot be left to individual researchers, for while most professors show great concern for the suffering of animals, other researchers lose perspective on what they are doing. Some unnecessary and downright cruel research does take place. The Draize test, which involved the testing...
Many companies have a long tradition of making cosmetic changes in their advertising symbols. Psyche, the winged goddess who has adorned the labels of White Rock beverages for 89 years, has grown steadily more svelte. In 1894, says the company, she was 5 ft. 4 in. tall, weighed 140 Ibs...
So we are left with cosmetic changes designed simply to calm human lights groups and garner periodic Congressional approval for new guns and funds. The lyrics change, but the song remains the same.
Ironically, the reason the doctors had access to the stories of the tortured prisoners was because the government wished to show improvement in treatment of political prisoners. But Eisenburg made it clear that based on what she has seen, the "imprisonment" is purely cosmetic. One of the members of the...