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...introduced a bill that would hold drug manufacturers, sellers and distributors to an implied warranty that their product is safe-a first for Britain-and give a child crippled before birth the right to sue. Finally, the laws that gagged Britain's press, and allowed the affair to drag on unnoticed for a decade, may be radically altered, probably forever, by the courageous precedent of Editor Evans and the Sunday Times...
...salaries in those categories have risen markedly. But the number of very low-paying jobs-janitor, dishwasher and hospital orderly, for example-has not declined. Henle gives two reasons: an influx over the past few years of postwar babies, who despite generally higher educational levels act as a drag on the lower end of the job market, and an increase in women and part-time workers, who often command relatively low pay. In other words, employers have found so many people available to be hired for relatively little money that they have not gone all-out to upgrade jobs...
...with two dozen 500-lb. bombs clustered on racks under the wings and 42 stubby 750-pounders inside. Painted pitch black, they looked like the birds of death that they are. Of all the 80 or so aircraft I watched depart, only one of them had to use its "drag bag"-the drag parachute used to abort a takeoff because of a technical difficulty. A reserve craft quickly took its place. That mass departure, timed to the split second, was a feat the Strategic Air Command ought to teach the world's commercial airlines...
...DISTASTE for the Isaacsons, increases as the effects of their children's upbringing becomes apparent. The older child, Daniel, is thrust against his parents perversities. Paul and Rochelle parade in the nude to show their children the natural beauty of the body, or drag them to a concert where reactionary demonstrators break Paul`s arm. When his parents die, Daniel assumes responsibility for his sister all too readily, as if he has been a parent-in-training all his life, Little Susan can think of her real parents only as gods, and all American institutions as similar to the jails...
...handbags, flip through businessmen's briefcases, tear open wrapped packages and even frisk some passengers for firearms, knives or other weapons that could be used to hijack a plane. For the passengers, these security spot checks are a brief, unaccustomed annoyance; for the airlines, they are a financial drag. Both the annoyance and the burden will climb sharply next week, as tough new federal regulations designed to guard against skyjacking take hold...