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...need for reform. There is a genuine lack of respect out there for the tax system. That translates, in our opinion, to a genuine lack of respect for Government generally. And I think if we can cure the former, we have some chance of increasing respect for Government...
...uncertainties because it involves arcane and highly sophisticated technologies: breeder reactors, plutonium reprocessing plants, uranium-enrichment facilities.* Says Leonard Weiss, an expert on the U.S. Senate staff: "Proliferation is a set of symptoms with a number of causes. It is both a political and technical problem. Therefore no single cure, or set of cures, will work...
There is no shortage of old wives' tales about the virtues of eating fish: it is "brain food," according to legend, and cod-liver oil is a cure for all that ails. The wives may have been onto something. Eating a little fish a day may indeed keep the doctor away, particularly the cardiologist. That is the implication of three new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
M.I.T. Economist Martin Weitzman may at first appear to be his profession's version of a snake-oil salesman. In his new book The Share Economy (Harvard; $15), Weitzman claims to have found a cure-all that will end both unemployment and inflation. The trick, he says, is for U.S. industry to abandon the practice of paying fixed wages and adopt a scheme that would compensate workers in relation to their employers' revenues or profits...
Street crime is a result of poverty. We should put our money into improving impoverished areas, not building more prisons. Punishing individuals who are already victims of an unequal system will not cure anything. Timothy J. Péwé Rock Island...