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Brown's Democrats, who control both houses, predict other dire consequences: a brain drain that is bound to deter the best and brightest from working in the statehouse, and a weakening of the legislature as it confronts some of its own ex-staffers now in the ranks of special-interest lobbies. One surviving expert, respected Democratic economist Steven Thompson, 49, predicts that when the term limits start taking effect in 1996, the legislative branch could even suffer constitutionally. Reason: the inexperience of rotating members will prevent it from holding up its end of the checks-and-balances system. So vehement...
According to Bill Cavellini, who has been cabbying here for 15 years, the dire financial straits drivers have found themselves in lately made a fare increase a necessity...
...RISING TIDE of insomnia must be checked. I hereby call for the immediate formation of Students for Improving and Extending Sleep Today and Always (SIESTA). Given the dire circumstances in which we begin our struggle, SIESTA will take drastic actions to raise unconsciousness. We'll begin with a pajama-clad "sleep-in." At 10:00 tonight, let all those who would make things right assemble in front of University Hall. Bring pillows...
Should foreign airlines be allowed to hold major stakes in U.S. carriers? The old answer, motivated by national pride and security concerns, was no. The new answer, influenced by the dire financial condition of many U.S. airlines, is yes -- within limits. Last week Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner increased the allowable size of a foreign carrier's stake in a U.S. airline to 49% of equity, up from...
...nobody has seemed to notice. The blaring front-page headlines that announced Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation have disappeared now that the Soviet foreign minister's dire predictions of imminent dictatorship have come true. Just as Kruschev's 1956 invasion of Hungary was overshadowed by the concurrent Suez crisis, the backlash in the Baltics has been buried on page nine, shunted to the background by Bush's moralistic pursuit of his New World Order...