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...cure for cancer or the solution to the energy crisis might some day lie in the heads and hands of those black students whom we whites are anxious to deny a decent education...
...years on the Hill, is out on the stump, his rhetoric sometimes suggests that he would abolish the entire Government. As head of that Government, he must know, after a year's on-the-job training, that some of his campaign lines are pure baloney. But he cannot cure the congressional hangover. Some of Ford's vetoes, often delivered with simplistic and negative explanations, represent a denial of the legitimate, if costly advances our society has made in the past years. On the other hand, many of the bills that he ve toed were grab bags of every...
...divide them artificially would risk duplication, inefficiency and-more serious-the possibility of intelligence gatherers and clandestine operators bumping into each other and being discovered. For the Pentagon to oversee covert actions, as Harris suggests, would give the military a license to initiate paramilitary adventures. That might be a cure worse than the disease. Since clandestine operations are justifiable chiefly as a means of heading off full-scale conflict-what Colby calls "an alternative between diplomatic protest and sending in the Marines"-they should be kept separate from the Defense Department...
...turn of the century, hucksters sold worm syrup and other nostrums to cure everything from rheumatism to cirrhosis. Back in 1908, the government succeeded in banning a headache remedy containing a toxic acid and bearing the beguiling name of Cuforhedake-Brane-Fude. The Food and Drug Administration, which was formally established in 1931, has stamped out such gross quackery. But now many concerned scientists are beginning to wonder whether the FDA has become so cautious in its repression of quack cures and unsafe medicines that it is in some danger of stamping out or at least slowing the development...
...also a modest exporter, probably in the 1980s, pumping oil revenues into its sick economy, wiping out its balance of payments deficit and reversing 30 years of economic decline. Critics say the oil will afford no such panacea; they assert that Britain's problems run deeper than any cure offered by the North Sea. But even they concede that the oil could bring an important economic pick...