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...nurse. Commission Chairman Clarence Pendleton and other opponents argue that comparable worth laws would involve the Government in a morass of subjective judgments about salary considerations best left to the free market; Democratic Representative Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio, a proponent, dismisses these objections as "hysterical responses (that) detract from a reasoned public debate of sex-based wage discrimination." The draft report concludes that enforcing comparable worth laws would require massive Government intervention into the economy and lead to "a radical reordering of our economic system...
Feldstein says that Leimer and Lesnoy's criticisms of his data and model do not detract from his conclusions because his model works even without the contested data...
...Secretary and most of the executive board of the Black Students Association were not included on the guest list, as well as the entire board of the Afro-American Cultural Center and the entire steering committee of the Association of Black Radcliffe Women. To mention these unexplainable omissions would detract from the point that Dr. S. Coutner insulted all Black students and all Harvard students by hosting this exclusive event. Every student on this campus has to wonder how the spending of what must have been thousands of dollars to spoon feed steaks, rolls and fruit cocktails to primarily Boston...
However, the Coalition does not see itself as merely gathering data about the situation; the point is to change it. The question then becomes how effective local communities would be in placing together a national plan, or whether, instead, they would actually detract from an overall scheme. Switching to the local level, though not leaving national level plans in the drink, may limit broad strategies like the regulation of ammunition. Restricting ammunition sales, a controversial but intriguing overall solution, simply makes no sense in small communities. It is no great inconvenience to buy your bullets in a neighboring town...
...with most existential dramas, the costuming and special effects are critical in establishing the play's message and mood. The spartan, if somewhat bizarre, backdrop of black plastic effectively sets the tone, while the often colorful costumes relieve the heavily symbolic drama. Some of the subtler special effects, however, detract from the atmosphere: the use of wet wine glasses as musical instruments, for example, is both superfluous and affected...