Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recommendations came from U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab, architect of the Administration's controversial zero-tolerance program, which briefly made headlines with the seizure of huge yachts found to be carrying minute amounts of drugs. Some suggestions are mild -- withholding some federal aid from states that fail to adopt strict antidrug policies. Others are radical -- flooding the market with "benign pseudo drugs" to confuse users. Says Von Raab: "The American people are going to have to suffer some inconvenience in order to win this...
There is something so personal about this summit, the President explains. Systems may be brutish, bureaucrats may fail. But men can sometimes transcend all that, transcend even the forces of history that seem destined to keep them apart. The idea that he would ever go to Moscow was only a dim possibility until he met Gorbachev. Then it sprang to life in an intimate inkling...
Others disagree, saying that violations occurregularly in the labs. They say that abuses, suchas food being kept in the labs and technicianshandling materials they are not supposed to,abound, and that EHS inspectors often fail to seewhat's going...
...course, this turnaround is ominous to conservatives, who fear that Reagan has become senile in his old age and is no match for the skillful Gorbachev. The new reforms, they argue, mask Gorbachev's plan to revive the stagnant Soviet economy and rival our technological capability. What they fail to realize is that a paranoid Soviet Union presents a greater threat to world peace than one that openly recognizes its past atrocities and encourages the expression of different views. An economically weak military superpower would be more likely to play off its area of strength; so America should welcome relations...
...sound system is extremely redundant, with two mikes at every position, to ensure reliability. "In fact," Clancy says, "It's almost two separate systems, with only one on line. It's basically fail-safe...