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...should commend them, and not discard a whole program because of something beyond its control; it is the military's inflexibility that prohibits ROTC from accepting gays and lesbians. We should voice our dissent and dissatisfaction with this policy--without damaging the rest of a valuable program and the patriotism of its participants...
...opposition rivals and their lack of support among rural and industrial workers also helped. Iliescu has said he will model Romania's economy on that of Sweden, while retaining government control of heavy industry and agriculture. Having shed the corrupt Ceausescu, Romanians seem in less of a hurry to discard communism...
...REGRETTABLY, WE ARE BEGINNING TO DISCARD EVERYTHING OLD WITH EASE, INCLUDING THOSE THINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN OF USE TODAY...
...skepticism about Collor's chances of succeeding, even though Brazil's foreign bankers generally approved of the people's choice. "No Brazilian politician has a shred of credibility in the marketplace," says Lawrence Brainard, a senior vice president at Bankers Trust, a major Brazilian creditor. "So people will simply discard what Collor said prior to elections and see what he actually does...
...easiest, most direct way for people to make a difference is to watch what they throw away. Every year more than 220 million trees are cut down just to make U.S. newspapers, the majority of which are tossed into the trash. Americans discard enough aluminum cans each year to rebuild the entire U.S. commercial airline fleet four times over. Quite obviously, says Earth Day 1990 chairman Denis Hayes, "the answer to the solid-waste problem is not figuring out some way to compact it or to incinerate it; the answer is to reduce...