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Despite the increasingly vocal public concern, laissez-faire Houston does not appear to be at all ready to enact the sort of comprehensive zoning laws that have helped contain the porn industry in some other cities. After closing down one particularly offensive club, Civic Activist Frank Phelps, 65, said that even though many sex-prone businesses remained in his area, residents could "live with what we've got." The remaining joints, said Phelps, "don't have the hideous signs up, and they don't advertise, and they are down near the freeway, away from the residential area." Translation...
Whatever modern relevance Rehnquist may have been suggesting, other critics charge that the Reaganauts, having failed to get Congress to enact the conservatives' social agenda, are seeking to build a court lineup that will do the job, just as liberals did in earlier years when they found Congress resistant to their goals. "If the Reagan counterrevolution is to be successful," says Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, "it must be done in the judiciary. That's their highest priority for the next three years...
Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy set in motion a fascinating drama of incarnations--a tragedy of myth transmittal attempted as dynastic policy. Each of his sons, by turns, was to enact the dream. When Joseph Kennedy Jr. was killed, then Jack Kennedy became the incarnation. Then Bobby Kennedy. Ultimately, Ted Kennedy took up the burden, by then almost too heavy and bitter to bear...
...strike this week fighting for their right to unionize. While we sympathize with the demands of graduate students at these schools, we feel that unionization is not the best way to solve the problems inherent in the current system for both undergraduates and graduate students. Instead, universities should proactively enact changes to improve the way TFs are paid and the responsibilities they are given—changes that will be beneficial...
...from supply-side theology and line up with such pragmatists as former Chief of Staff James Baker and his assistant Richard Darman, now Secretary and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Together they battled to scale back increases in defense spending, with little success until this year. Though they helped enact a few "revenue-enhancing" measures, they could not persuade the President to consider more serious tax increases...