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Richmond said he does not expect the stamps torise in value because too many are being printed.But he said that this should not deter people whoenjoy collecting stamps from buying them...
...predicted that Hill's brave performance would both embolden other women to come forward with grievances and promote greater sensitivity in the workplace. The other camp warned that the spectacle of 14 white male Senators grilling a young black woman with sometimes rude, often embarrassing, rarely knowledgeable questions would deter other women from lodging harassment complaints. Pointing to polls that showed that almost twice as many people believed Thomas as Hill, some warned that women would draw a discouraging conclusion: no matter how insulting the behavior, they would find it hard to get a fair hearing...
...technical know-how to build nuclear weapons cannot be abolished no matter how carefully arms-control treaties are drafted. Truly determined governments, among them many smaller nations that covet prestige and power, cannot be prevented from buying or building nuclear arms. The U.S. will have to be prepared to deter nuclear-armed dictators, and to intervene against them if necessary, in order to protect its friends and head off nuclear blackmail...
...numbers by 2050, to nearly 11 billion, humanity may complete the devastation that accelerated so steeply in this century. Such unabated expansion in our numbers would continue to soak up the world's capital and prevent the poorer nations from making the necessary investments in technological development that might deter continued population growth...
...Unfortunately, the state and local courtsystems aren't there to rehabilitate, they'rethere to deter you." said Walsh. "A number ofpeople are repeaters because the system enablesyou to repeat...