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Another form of harrassment comes from people who think I can hand out free food. They employ a couple of tactics. The hip, let's-be-brothers approach is a favorite. "Hey dude, whyncha sneak me a coupla more goodies?" they wink, bodies contorted by the old Monty Python nudge-nudge routine. Say no more, say no more...
Staffers attribute TNC's success to its philosophy of nonconfrontation. While the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society, for example, employ litigation, lobbying and publicity as weapons, TNC prefers to use gentle persuasion -- and cash. "We have very little to do with the activist environmental groups," says David Morine, TNC's head of land acquisitions. "We stay away from all that and get along with everybody." The organization has even extended an olive branch to developers, a group that most environmentalists consider the enemy. "We are not in conflict with developers," says TNC's new president Frank Boren, himself...
Hughes also examines the assignment system, which allowed convicts to work off their sentences in the employ of private settlers. The program guaranteed the prisoners certain rights, got them back into society, gave them a shot at achievement and became, says Hughes, "by far the most successful form of penal rehabilitation that had ever been tried in English, American or European history...
...benefits, many business leaders argue, impose too big a financial burden on small enterprises. The decision "spells disaster," says Don Butler, president of the Los Angeles-based Merchants and Manufacturers Association. "Larger companies can shift to fill a hole, but small ones cannot do that very easily. If I employ ten females and two or more get pregnant at one time, I might as well file for bankruptcy." Discrimination against women might increase. Many companies "just won't hire women in their childbearing years," says the Chamber's Attorney Lamp...
...United Nations Ambassador and envoy to China; a subsequent stint as director of the CIA acutely altered his views of the Kremlin's objectives around the world. Bush the moderate became more hawkish. Now he speaks out sharply in behalf of the Nicaraguan contras and is not reluctant to employ weapons and money elsewhere to expand democracy. Meanwhile he pushes, even in the worst of times, for continued dialogue with Moscow. In doing so, he plays an important role in keeping the President's more aggressive tendencies in check...