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These policy issues could not be decided at a two day conference--and that is precisely where Bush is most at fault. In the face of real problems such as those facing the inner cities and poorer states, it is most tragic that Bush chose to pass the burden of action to the states...
Mobuto is a staunch ally of the United States. Much like Marcos in the Philipines, Noriega in Panama, Pinochet in Chile and the leaders of many other banana republics, Mobuta has been an S.O.B., but he's been our S.O.B. Loyal to a fault, he has kept communism from becoming a force in Black Africa's second largest country...
Many of the delays in the arrival of textbooks are the fault of publishers who are slow in reprinting out-of-stock books, says Gingerich, who teaches Science A-17, "The Astronomical Perspective...
...fault also lies in Americans' perceptions. Many students, for example, still believe that people should be allowed to do whatever they want within the confines of their own home. This viewpoint, more or less, condones casual drug...
Alaska, meanwhile, has sued Exxon and the other oil companies that operate in the state for as yet unspecified damages. In a campaign of harassment (financed almost entirely from cleanup funds provided by Exxon), state officials manage to find fault at every turn. Says Steve Provant, a state cleanup coordinator: "I don't think any of the beaches are clean." Recently the state withheld approval for Exxon to use a floating incinerator it had brought to Alaska at a cost of $5 million after initially telling the company that burning was the preferred method of waste disposal...