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...both cases, the sender has expended a measure of effort to convey his message, and in both cases, recipients have been compelled to expend some effort acknowledging and disposing of the message. In daily life, we accept this principle: junk mail sometimes annoys us, but it is not illegal. We can take measures to prevent it, but its receipt usually imposes no cost other than time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outrage On The Internet | 3/9/1996 | See Source »

After all, a little hypocrisy shouldn't stand in the way of economic prosperity. And Buchanan's plans for economic isolation will surely bring just that. One might be tempted to contemplate 200 years worth of economic theory regarding the gains from free trade, but why expend all that unnecessary energy when it's so much easier to retreat behind the wall of protectionism that Buchanan offers? After all, if we can't compete with Japan and Germany, why even try? Just shut them out. I'm surprised more people haven't come to this conclusion...

Author: By David H. Goldbrenner, | Title: RECONCILING BUCHANAN | 2/22/1996 | See Source »

...principal drafters of the ada and a practicing attorney with extensive experience in disability law, I can tell your readers that Swallow's conclusion is flat wrong. Nothing in the ada requires a company that spends money to find a cure for one disease to expend resources to research other diseases. CAROLYN P. OSOLINIK Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1996 | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...Sodomy=Death." In an age of a medical that touches each one of us--male, female, gay, rich, poor--it is disheartening and unjustifiable for the tragedy of AIDS as a vehicle to disseminate hatred. create, divisions where it should not exist, fan flames of where compassion should reign, expend valuable effort that produces nothing of any value in our common fight...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Hatred = Death: False AALARM | 10/17/1995 | See Source »

...extra money would go in part to expend the Medicaid rolls from 36 million to 45 million people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Governors Speak Out on Medicare | 9/26/1995 | See Source »

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